The nature of crystalline silica from the TAG submarine hydrothermal mound, 26°N Mid Atlantic Ridge

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 342-350

  Hopkinson, Laurence ^a   Roberts, Stephen ^a   Herrington, Richard ^b   Wilkinson, Jamie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; SILICA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033489907     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050554     Document Type: Article

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