Hydrothermal pits in the biogenic sediments of the equatorial Pacific Ocean

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Moore Jr , Ted C ^a   Mitchell, Neil C ^b   Lyle, Mitchell ^c   Backman, Jan ^d   Pälike, Heiko ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Equatorial Pacific; Hydrothermal; Pits

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548106127     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GC001501     Document Type: Article

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