Origin of a native sulfur chimney in the Kueishantao hydrothermal field, offshore northeast Taiwan

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1746-1753

  Zeng, ZhiGang ^a   Liu, ChangHua ^a,b   Chen, ChenTung A ^c   Yin, XueBo ^a   Chen, DaiGeng ^a,b   Wang, XiaoYuan ^a,b   Wang, XiaoMei ^a,b   Zhang, GuoLiang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Kueishantao hydrothermal field; Native sulfur chimney; Northeast Taiwan; Origin

Indexed keywords

DEGASSING; ISOTOPES; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SULFUR; TAIWAN; THERMODYNAMICS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

HYDROTHERMAL FIELD; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; SULFUR CHIMNEY;

CHIMNEYS;

CHONDRITE; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEAWATER; SULFUR; TRACE ELEMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 35048899161     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-0092-y     Document Type: Article

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