A fossil, serpentinization-related hydrothermal vent, Ocean Drilling Program Leg 173, Site 1068 (Iberia Abyssal Plain): Some aspects of mineral and fluid chemistry

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B7, 2000, Pages 16527-16539

  Beard, James S ^a   Hopkinson, Laurence ^b  

^a VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID COMPOSITION; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MINERALOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IBERIAN ABYSSAL PLAIN;

EID: 0034631641     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900073     Document Type: Article

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