Seafloor-hydrothermal Si-Fe-Mn exhalites in the Pecos greenstone belt, New Mexico, and the redox state of ca. 1720 Ma deep seawater

Geosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 302-314

  Slack, John F ^a   Grenne, Tor ^b   Bekker, Andrey ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP SEA; DEPOSITION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MINERALIZATION; PROTEROZOIC; SEAFLOOR; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

PECOS;

EID: 72049123139     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00220.1     Document Type: Article

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