Crustal faults exposed in the Pito Deep Rift: Conduits for hydrothermal fluids on the southeast Pacific Rise

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Hayman, Nicholas W ^a   Karson, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

East Pacific Rise; Faults; Hydrothermal; Mid ocean ridge; Pito deep; Tectonic window

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349708812     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GC002319     Document Type: Article

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