Active geothermal systems with entrained seawater as modern analogs for transitional volcanic-hosted massive sulfide and continental magmato-hydrothermal mineralization: The example of Milos Island, Greece

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 541-544

  Naden, Jonathan ^a   Kilias, Stephanos P ^b   Darbyshire, D P Fiona ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Epithermal processes; Isotopes; Milos; Seawater

Indexed keywords

GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS; LOW-SALINITY GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; PALEO-FLUID SALINITES;

ISOTOPES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; SODIUM DEPOSITS; VOLCANOES;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; NATURAL ANALOG; SEAWATER;

CYCLADAS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MILOS; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 21944453192     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21307.1     Document Type: Article

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