Biological mediation in ocean crust alteration: How deep is the deep biosphere?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 166, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 97-103

  Furnes, Harald ^a   Staudigel, Hubert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alteration; Basaltic composition; Biogenic processes; Biosphere; Oceanic crust; Volcanic glass

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CRUST; VOLCANIC GLASS; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033558863     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00005-9     Document Type: Article

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