Petrology, isotope geochemistry and chemical budgets of oceanic gabbros-seawater interactions in the equatorial Atlantic

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 246-266

  Talbi, El H ^a,b   Honnorez, J ^a   Clauer, N ^a   Gauthier Lafaye, F ^a   Stille, P ^a  

^a UMR 7063   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GABBRO; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OCEANIC CRUST; PETROLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ROMANCHE FRACTURE ZONE; VEMA FRACTURE ZONE;

EID: 0033388152     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050549     Document Type: Article

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