Hydrothermal flow systems in the midcontinent rift: Oxygen and hydrogen isotopic studies of the North Shore Volcanic Group and related hypabyssal sills, Minnesota

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 11-12, 1999, Pages 1787-1804

  Park, Young Rok ^a   Ripley, Edward M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD BASALT; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; RIFT ZONE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032759780     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00101-5     Document Type: Article

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