M.P. Doukas K.A. McGee R. Kessler T.M. Gerlach 1998 <div class=""><div class="article-section__content en main"><p>We used the closed chamber method to measure soil CO₂<span>&nbsp;</span>efflux over a three-year period at the Horseshoe Lake tree kill (HLTK)—the largest tree kill on Mammoth Mountain in central eastern California. Efflux contour maps show a significant decline in the areas and rates of CO₂<span>&nbsp;</span>emission from 1995 to 1997. The emission rate fell from 350 t d⁻¹<span>&nbsp;</span>(metric tons per day) in 1995 to 130 t d⁻¹<span>&nbsp;</span>in 1997. The trend suggests a return to background soil CO₂<span>&nbsp;</span>efflux levels by early to mid 1999 and may reflect exhaustion of CO₂<span>&nbsp;</span>in a deep reservoir of accumulated gas and/or mechanical closure or sealing of fault conduits transmitting gas to the surface. However, emissions rose to 220 t d⁻¹<span>&nbsp;</span>on 23 September 1997 at the onset of a degassing event that lasted until 5 December 1997. Recent reservoir recharge and/or extension-enhanced gas flow may have caused the degassing event.</p></div></div> application/pdf 10.1029/98GL01298 en American Geophysical Union Three-year decline of magmatic CO2 emissions from soils of a Mammoth Mountain tree kill: Horseshoe Lake, CA, 1995-1997 article