期刊
GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE
卷 72, 期 4, 页码 265-274出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2010.01.002
关键词
microseepage; methane flux; soil sink; drylands; petroleum; greenhouse gas
资金
- U.S. National Science Foundation
- U.S. Dept. of Energy
Drylands are considered a net sink for atmospheric methane and a main item of the global inventories of the greenhouse gas budget. It is outlined here, however, that a significant portion of drylands occur over sedimentary basins hosting natural gas and oil reservoirs, where gas migration to the surface takes place, producing positive fluxes of methane into the atmosphere. New field surveys, in different hydrocarbon-prone basins, confirm that microseepage, enhanced by faults and fractures in the rocks, overcomes the methanotrophic consumption occurring in dry soil throughout large areas, especially in the winter season. Fluxes of a few units to some tens of mg m(-2) day(-1) are frequent over oil-gas fields, whose global extent is estimated at 3.5-4.2 million km(2); higher fluxes (>50 mg m(-2) day(-1)) are primarily, but not exclusively, found in basins characterized by macro-seeps. Microseepage may however potentially exist over a wider area (similar to 8 million km(2), i.e. 15% of global drylands), including the Total Petroleum Systems, coal measures and portions of sedimentary basins that have experienced thermogenesis. Based on a relatively large and geographically dispersed data-set (563 measurements) from different hydrocarbon-prone basins in USA and Europe, upscaling suggests that global microseepage emission exceeding 10 Tg year(-1) is very likely. Microseepage is then only one component of a wider class of geological sources, including mud volcanoes, seeps, geothermal and marine seepage, which cannot be ignored in the atmospheric methane budget. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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