alkanofer

English

Etymology

From alkane +‎ -o- (linking vowel) +‎ -fer.

Noun

alkanofer (plural alkanofers)

1. A subsurface reservoir of liquid hydrocarbons
   • 2015, Olivier Mousis, Jonathan I. Lunine, Alexander G. Hayes, Jason D. Hofgartner, “The fate of ethane in Titan's hydrocarbon lakes and seas”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     In order to explain this apparent ethane deficiency, we explore the possibility that Ligeia Mare is the visible part of an alkanofer that interacted with an underlying clathrate layer and investigate the influence of this interaction on an assumed initial ethane-methane mixture in the liquid phase.