Hydrothermal fluid venting along a seismogenic detachment fault in the Moresby rift (Woodlark basin, Papua New Guinea)

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2005, Pages

  Famin, Vincent ^a   Nakashima, Satoru ^b  

^a Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre   (France)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlorite; Detachment fault; Fluid inclusions; Hydrothermal fluid; Woodlark basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249847059     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GC001112     Document Type: Article

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