Ironstone pods in the Archean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: Earth's oldest seafloor hydrothermal vents reinterpreted as Quaternary subaerial springs: Reply

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Lowe, Donald R ^a   Byerly, Gary R ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GREENSTONE BELT; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; IRONSTONE; QUATERNARY; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; THERMAL SPRING;

BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT;

EID: 33846497631     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613-32.1.e69     Document Type: Letter

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