Deposition of osmium and other platinum-group elements beneath the ultramafic-hosted Rainbow hydrothermal plume

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 65-79

  Cave, R R ^a   Ravizza, G E ^b   German, C R ^a   Thomson, J ^a   Nesbitt, R W ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluxes; Hydrothermal; Osmium; PGE; Seawater; Sediment; Ultramafic

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OSMIUM; PLATINUM GROUP ELEMENT; SEAWATER; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0038353687     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00135-3     Document Type: Article

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