Copper isotope systematics of the Lucky Strike, Rainbow, and Logatchev sea-floor hydrothermal fields on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Economic Geology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 585-600

  Rouxel, Olivier ^a   Fouquet, Yves ^b   Ludden, John N ^a  

^a CRPG CNRS   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; SUPERGENE PROCESSES; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS;

BASALT; COBALT; CRYSTALLIZATION; FRACTIONATION; SELENIUM; SULFIDE MINERALS;

COPPER;

BLACK SMOKER; COPPER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; MINERALIZATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 4043109161     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.99.3.585     Document Type: Article

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