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Lake Powell, Hite UT 2014-2016 gas analysis

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In 1963, the Glen Canyon Dam, in Hite Utah was completed, creating the Lake Powell reservoir along the Colorado River. The water levels of Lake Powell peaked in 1983 and have declined since, releasing over-pressure on the underlying sediment. This release in over-pressure created mud volcanoes, structures along the shoreline made of cavities that allow fluid and gases to rise to the surface and escape. Green house gases including methane are released from these structures, and to better understand how development of natural wetlands can result in unintended increased levels of greenhouse gas emissions, we asked 1) how much of each gas is generated or and whether the amount of each gas is changing through time and 2) how are these gases forming in the subsurface? We first measured the amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and air (N) in volcano gas samples collected in 2014, 2015, and 2016. We found that from 2014 through 2016, methane levels from these volcanoes fluctuated significantly. In 2016, we looked at the amounts of carbon and hydrogen isotopes in the methane, which told us the gas is generated from microorganisms feeding on organic matter and is released during water-level fluctuations. We looked at mud volcanoes only located along the Lake Powell marina delta in Hite, Utah. The data spans geological structures restricted to one marina delta.

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Title Lake Powell, Hite UT 2014-2016 gas analysis
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/bac6697a-21d0-41b0-a1b4-fe948579b685
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
malenda@stanford.edu
Reference Period 01/07/2014 - 01/05/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    -111.48166,
    36.92486
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Lake Powell, Hite UT 2014-2016 gas analysis". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/lake-powell-hite-ut-2014-2016-gas-analysis