Helium-3 plume over the East Pacific Rise at 25°S

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Takahata, Naoto ^a   Agarwal, Meetu ^a   Nishizawa, Manabu ^a   Shirai, Kotaro ^a   Inoue, Yumiko ^a   Sano, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEON; OCEAN CURRENTS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

HELIUM ISOTOPES; PLUME; SALINITY;

HELIUM;

HELIUM ISOTOPE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OCEANIC CURRENT; PLUME;

EAST PACIFIC RISE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 23844488747     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023076     Document Type: Article

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