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Isotope compositions in a natural gas seep, French Alps

The Fontaine Ardente (FA) and Rochasson (ROC) natural gas seepage sites are located southwest (FA) and east (ROC) of Grenoble, France. For both field sites, gas is thought to originate from buried Middle Jurassic mudstones and argillaceous limestones and thought to migrate upward along small faults. At FA, the site located along a small seepage close to the river bed of a small creek. The gas seepage site at ROC is located along the flank of a thalweg and is linked to a small landslide in clayey horizons. New methane clumped isotope data is correlated to previously published data by Gal et al (2017) and recent isotopic data acquired within SECURe deliverable 3.4. During October 2019, 5 samples were collected from the FA and ROC sites and the following analyses were conducted: - Gas composition (C1-C5, CO2, N2, H2S, Ar) and and stable isotope analyses (methane δ13C and δD, CO2 δ13C, δ15N) - Methane clumped isotope analyses (Δ13CD and ΔDD) The dataset was created within SECURe project (Subsurface Evaluation of CCS and Unconventional Risks) - https://www.securegeoenergy.eu/. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 764531

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Date (Creation)
2021-04-21
Identifier
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607742
Originator
  TNO - Jurgen Foeken
Postbus 80015, 3508 TA , Utrecht ,
Distributor
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Carbon dioxide
  • Isotopes
  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • UKCCS
  • Methane
  • Citable Data
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  • NGDC Deposited Data
  • UKCCS
  • Citable Data
Keywords
  • NERC_DDC
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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Geographic identifier
FR

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
FRA

Date (Revision)
2009

Geographic identifier
FRANCE [id=210000]

Date (Creation)
1979

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2019-10-13
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2019-10-18
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WGS 84 (EPSG::4326)
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  British Geological Survey - Enquiries
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Foeken, J., Goldberg, T. (2022): Isotope compositions in a natural gas seep, French Alps. NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/d421bd1f-233f-4738-80ec-bb53fd91b0d7

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Date (Publication)
2011
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See the referenced specification
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No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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No
Statement
Gas sampling was performed by inserting a soil probe or burying an inverted funnel over an active gas vent. The gas was pumped slowly from the gas vent into 1L gas-tight glass vessels through a drying agent filled with Mg(ClO4)2. Three samples were collected in Isotubes. Both the vessel and the Isotubes were flushed with 3 volumes of gas before it was collected. Three samples were sampled directly at the main gas vents, whereas an additional two were sampled in the vicinity of the main gas vents from soil gas. Major gas composition of the FA and ROC samples was measured on a gas chromatograph at GFZ. Carbon isotopes (δ13C) of CH4 and CO2 were measured on a MAT 253 GC-IRMS at GFZ. Methane clumped isotope analyses are conducted on a Thermo Scientific IRMS-253 Ultra.
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dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-12-11
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth , NOTTINGHAM , NOTTINGHAMSHIRE , NG12 5GG , United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
Dataset URI
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607742
 
 

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