Hydrothermal plume anomalies along the Central Indian Ridge

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 2527-2535

  Zhu, Jian ^a   Lin, Jian ^b   Guo, Shiqin ^c   Chen, Yongshun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c China Ocean Mineral Resources R and D Association   (China)

Author keywords

Central Indian Ridge; Hydrothermal plumes; Kairei and Edmond vent fields; MAPR; Turbidity anomalies

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749134273     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0208-6     Document Type: Article

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