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Determination of volatile fatty acids in the hot springs of Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy

Mariano ValenzaJan P. AmendAndrea C. Amend

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chemistry.chemical_classificationHot springgeographygeography.geographical_feature_categoryCarboxylic acidMineralogyHydrothermal circulationVolatile fatty acidsMediterranean seachemistryGeochemistry and PetrologyEnvironmental chemistrySpring (hydrology)Environmental scienceAeolian processesWest mediterranean

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Abstract Samples of relatively acid hydrothermal fluids were collected in the spring of 1996 from seeps, springs, and wells on the Island of Vulcano in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea and analyzed for volatile fatty acids 1 using liquid chromatography. Concentrations of VFAs in the seeps were in the range 65–140 ppb formic, 133–184 ppb acetic, and

https://doi.org/10.1016/s0146-6380(98)00023-0