Keith A. Kvenvolden

13.1k citations
139 papers · 9.4k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 43

Keith A. Kvenvolden

137 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

Petroleum geochemistry and geology1.4k19702026198820074008001.2k

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Keith A. Kvenvolden
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  • Environmental Chemistry 4.8k
  • Mechanics of Materials 4.5k
  • Global and Planetary Change 2.9k
  • Geology 679
  • Atmospheric Science 1.8k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 200259
2 200230
3
Global occurrences of gas hydrate
200111
4
Geochemical evidence for gas hydrate in sediment near the Chile Triple Juction
199513
5 19952
6 199316
7 19916
8
Methane hydrate — A major reservoir of carbon in the shallow geosphere?breakdown →
1988891
9
Hydrocarbon Gases in Surface Sediments of the South Aoba Basin, Vanuatu
19881
10
Natural Gas Hydrates of the Offshore Circum-Pacific Margin--A Future Energy Resource?
19863
11 19851
12 19816
13 1980108
14 19792
15
Amino acid analyses of Apollo 14 samples.
19722
16 19727
17
Biogenicity and significance of the oldest known stromatolites
197151
18
A Search for carbon and its compounds in lunar samples from Mare Tranquillitatis.
19701
19
Evidence for Extraterrestrial Amino-acids and Hydrocarbons in the Murchison Meteoritebreakdown →
1970617
20 196686

About Keith A. Kvenvolden

Keith A. Kvenvolden is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change and Mechanics of Materials, having authored 139 papers that have together received 9.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (63 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (60 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (52 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (26 papers), Petroleum Processing and Analysis (21 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (19 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (14 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Chemistry (4.8k citations), Mechanics of Materials (4.5k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (2.9k citations). Keith A. Kvenvolden has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Frequent co-authors include James G. Lawless, Cyril Ponnamperuma, Etta Peterson, Frances D. Hostettler, George E. Claypool, Bruce Rogers, C. B. Moore, Thomas D. Lorenson, I. R. Kaplan and John B. Rapp. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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