A vestige of earth's oldest ophiolite

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5819, 2007, Pages 1704-1707

  Furnes, Harald ^a   De Wit, Maarten ^b,c   Staudigel, Hubert ^d   Rosing, Minik ^e   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACCRETION; DIKE; GABBRO; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; ISLAND ARC; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PILLOW LAVA; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

ARTICLE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; GREENLAND; OPHIOLITE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 34047187894     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139170     Document Type: Article

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27. Comments by Y. Dilek, B. Robins, N. McLoughlin, and two anonymous reviewers improved the manuscript. Financial support was provided by the Norwegian Research Council, the Geological Museum of Copenhagen, the GFZ-Potsdam, the Agouron foundation, and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. This is AEON contribution no. 31.