Large heat and fluid fluxes driven through mid-plate outcrops on ocean crust

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 611-614

  Hutnak, M ^a   Fisher, A T ^a   Harris, R ^b   Stein, C ^c   Wang, K ^d   Spinelli, G ^e   Schindler, M ^f   Villinger, H ^g   Silver, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^e NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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EID: 58149219937     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo264     Document Type: Article

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