Relationship between the Sr and O isotope compositions of hydrothermal fluids and the spreading and magma-supply rates at oceanic spreading centers

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1067-1070

  Bach, Wolfgang ^a   Humphris, Susan E ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPES; PHASE SEPARATION; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DEPTHS OF PENETRATION; FLUID-FLOW PATHWAYS; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; SHORT-TERM VARIATIONS; SLOW-SPREADING RIDGES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN; STRONTIUM;

EID: 0033501548     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<1067:RBTSAO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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