Old iodine in fluids venting along the Central American convergent margin

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Lu, Zunli ^a   Hensen, Christian ^b   Fehn, Udo ^a   Wallmann, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRATES; IODINE; ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY MARGINS; FLUID EXPULSION; FLUIDS VENTING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACCRETION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEWATERING; ENRICHMENT; FLUID EXPULSION; IODINE; ORGANIC CARBON; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VENTING;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 38949124712     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031864     Document Type: Article

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