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Data used in Ihle et al. manuscript "Minimal geologic methane emissions in the Denver-Julesburg Basin " Alexander Ihle (23759232) Kathleen R. Hall (20315025) Thomas Weber (6922772) Haoran Piao (24798730) Marc Buursink (24386055) Margaret Scholer (21418070) Mingzhe Zhu (24798871) Katey Walter Anthony (557159) Blair Tinker (20175331) Vasilii V. Petrenko (20391435) Earth sciences Atmospheric sciences Climate change science Geology Resource geoscience Greenhouse gas inventories and fluxes Atmospheric composition, chemistry and processes Denver-Julesburg Basin Geologic methane Microseepage Methane Flux chamber measurements Soil-atmosphere interaction Soil-atmosphere gas flux measurements <p dir="ltr">· We collected 715 soil-to-atmosphere methane flux measurements in the Denver-Julesburg Basin.</p><p dir="ltr">· The upper limit for regional-mean geologic microseepage flux in the studied portion of the basin is 0.681 mg CH₄ m^-2 day^-1, more than an order of magnitude below a previous best-estimate.</p><p dir="ltr">· We found no relationship between geologic methane flux and hypothesized predictive geologic features.</p><p dir="ltr">This is the data for the manuscript Ihle et al., "Minimal geologic methane emissions in the Denver-Julesburg Basin". Scripts for the histograms, statistical tests, and Monte Carlo analysis using the data stored in this repository are located at <a href="https://github.com/alexander-c-ihle/DJ-Paper-Scripts" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/alexander-c-ihle/DJ-Paper-Scripts</a>. Scripts and example input data for this manuscript's flux calculation technique is available at <a href="https://github.com/KatieHall1919/Flux-Calculation" target="_blank">https://github.com/KatieHall1919/Flux-Calculation</a>.</p> 2026-09-28T13:16:07Z Dataset Dataset 10.60593/ur.d.33620167.v2 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_used_in_Ihle_et_al_manuscript_Geologic_methane_emissions_in_the_Denver-Julesburg_Basin_are_lower_than_previously_estimated_/33620167 CC BY 4.0