Chemical characteristics of hydrothermal fluids from the TAG mound of the mid-Atlantic Ridge in August 1994: Implications for spatial and temporal variability of hydrothermal activity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 3483-3486

  Gamo, Toshitaka ^a   Chiba, Hitoshi ^b   Masuda, Harue ^c   Edmonds, Henrietta N ^d   Fujioka, Kantaro ^e   Kodama, Yukio ^a   Nanba, Hiromi ^f   Sano, Yuji ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FRACTIONATION; PH; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SUBMERSIBLES; ALKALINITY; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; STRONTIUM; TUNGSTEN;

HYDROTHERMAL FIELDS; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS;

SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; HYDROCHEMISTRY;

BLACK SMOKER; FLUID CHEMISTRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL MOUND; HYDROTHERMAL SOLUTIONS; WHITE SMOKER;

ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE, TAG FIELD;

CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SR ISOTOPE RATIO; WATER/ROCK RATIO;

EID: 0030292237     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02521     Document Type: Article

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