Hydrothermal activity along the southwest Indian ridge

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6701, 1998, Pages 490-493

  German, C R ^a   Baker, E T ^b   Mevel, C ^c   Tamaki, K ^d   Blondel, P ^a   Evans, A ^a   Flewellen, C ^a   Matthew, D ^a   Parson, L ^a   Wallace, A ^a   Boulanger, D ^e   Sauter, D ^e   Fujimoto, H ^d   Osada, Y ^d   Tamura, C ^d   Yama Ashi, T ^d   Gomez, O ^f   Lee, S M ^g   Searle, R C ^g   Patriat, P ^h   Pouliquen, G ^h   Rommevau Jestin, C ⁱ   Yamada, T ^d   more..

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e Inst Phys du Globe de Strasbourg   (France)

^f Lab d'Etud Geophysique O   (France)

^g Lab d'Etud Geophysique O ^*  (United Kingdom)

^h INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

ⁱ SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; SPREADING CENTRE;

ARTICLE; HEAT TRANSFER; PLUME DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WATER TEMPERATURE;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0032189504     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26730     Document Type: Article

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