Where are the large hydrothermal sulphide deposits in the oceans?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1723, 1997, Pages 427-441

  Fouquet, Y ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; BACKARC BASINS; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL MINERALIZATION; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; OCEAN CRUST; SULPHIDE; SULPHIDE DEPOSITS;

EID: 0030732947     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1997.0015     Document Type: Article

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