Ocean floor hydrothermal veins in eclogite facies rocks of the Zermatt-Saas Zone, Switzerland

Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-73

  Widmer, Timo ^b   Ganguin, Jacques ^a   Thompson, Alan Bruce ^b  

^a Amt Gewasserschutz A   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Eclogite facies; High pressure; Hydrothermal veins; Metasomatism; Ocean floor

Indexed keywords

ECLOGITE; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; METASOMATISM; P-T CONDITIONS; VEIN (GEOLOGY);

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0034108390     PISSN: 00367699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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