Detection of hydrothermal plumes along the Southeast Indian Ridge near the Amsterdam-St. Paul Plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-100

  Scheirer, Daniel S ^a,b   Baker, Edward T ^b,c   Johnson, Kevin T M ^a,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c BISHOP MUSEUM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; GEOPHYSICS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURVEYS;

HIGH TEMPERATURE SEAFLOOR VENTING; HYDROTHERMAL PLUMES; SOUTHEAST INDIAN RIDGE;

THERMAL PLUMES;

BARNACLE; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; OCEAN RIDGE; PROFILING INSTRUMENT; VENTING;

INDIAN OCEAN, AMSTERDAM-ST. PAUL PLATEAU;

EID: 0031859843     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03443     Document Type: Article

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