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

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  de Ronde, C E J ^a   de Wit, M J ^b   Spooner, E T C ^c   Channer, D M deR ^d   Christenson, B W ^a   Bray, C J ^c   Faure, K ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Toco Mining   (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: 33846549743     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613-32.1.e68     Document Type: Note

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