Oceanic detachment faults focus very large volumes of black smoker fluids

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 935-938

  McCaig, Andrew M ^a   Cliff, Robert A ^a   Escartin, Javier ^b   Fallick, Anthony E ^c   MacLeod, Christopher J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detachment faults; Hydrothermal circulation; Ocean crust; Oxygen isotopes; Strontium isotopes; Talc tremolite schist

Indexed keywords

BLACK SMOKER FLUIDS; DETACHMENT FAULTS; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; OCEAN CRUST; OCEANIC DETACHMENT FAULTS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES;

FLOW OF FLUIDS; ISOTOPES; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM; THERMAL EFFECTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BLACK SMOKER; DETACHMENT FAULT; FLUID FLOW; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; OCEANIC CRUST; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

EID: 35448938292     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23657A.1     Document Type: Article

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