Seafloor hydrothermal fluids, Ben Nevis area, Abitibi Greenstone Belt: Implications for Archean (∼2.7 Ga) seawater properties

Precambrian Research

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 89-123

  Weiershauser L ^a   Spooner, E T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abitibi; Archean; Fluid inclusions; Salinity; Seawater

Indexed keywords

GREENSTONE BELT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; METAMORPHISM; PALEOSALINITY; PROTEROZOIC; SEAWATER;

BEN NEVIS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAMPIAN HIGHLANDS; HIGHLAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ERETHIZON DORSATUM; PILBARA;

EID: 19944412173     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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