Precipitation of quartz during high-temperature, fracture-controlled hydrothermal upflow at ocean ridges: Equilibrium versus linear kinetics

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B1, 2000, Pages 869-882

  Martin, Jeffrey T ^a,b   Lowell, Robert P ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); QUARTZ;

EID: 0034627637     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900342     Document Type: Article

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