Hydrothermal methane and manganese variation in the plume over the superfast-spreading southern East Pacific Rise

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 485-500

  Ishibashi, Junichiro ^a   Wakita, Hiroshi ^a   Okamura, Kei ^a,b   Nakayama, Eiichiro ^b,e   Feely, Richard A ^c   Lebon, Geoffrey T ^c   Baker, Edward T ^c   Marumo, Katsumi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; HYDROTHERMAL PLUMES; MAGMATISM; MANGANESE; METHANE;

PACIFIC, EAST PACIFIC RISE;

EID: 0030755793     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(96)00304-3     Document Type: Article

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