S-33 constraints on the seawater sulfate contribution in modern seafloor hydrothermal vent sulfides

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1170-1182

  Ono, Shuhei ^a   Shanks III, Wayne C ^b   Rouxel, Olivier J ^c   Rumble, Douglas ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CHALCOPYRITE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; LEACHING; MASS BALANCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SEAFLOOR; SEAWATER; SPHALERITE; SULFIDE; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EAST PACIFIC RISE; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33846929941     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2006.11.017     Document Type: Article

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