Depth of active bio-alteration in the ocean crust: Costa Rica Rift (Hole 504B)

Terra Nova

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 228-233

  Furnes, Harald ^a   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^b   Tumyr, Ole ^a   Torsvik, Terje ^a   Thorseth, Ingunn H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; GLASS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OCEANIC CRUST;

COSTA RICA RIFT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033508862     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.1999.00251.x     Document Type: Article

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