Search for the proverbial mantle osmium sources to the oceans: Hydrothermal alteration of mid-ocean ridge basalt

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 71, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 4655-4667

  Sharma, Mukul ^a   Rosenberg, Erin J ^a   Butterfield, David A ^b  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAGNESIUM; MANTLE SOURCE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE BASALT; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

JUAN DE FUCA RIDGE; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 35348819361     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2007.06.062     Document Type: Article

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