Mapping elemental distributions in submarine hydrothermal sulfide smokers using proton induced X-ray emission

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 268, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 2129-2132

  Yeats, Chris ^a   Belton, David ^b   Laird, Jamie S ^b,c,d   Ryan, Chris G ^b,c,d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Black smokers; Hydrothermal vents; Mineralogical zones; Particle induced X ray emission; Sulfides; Undersea sulfide chimneys

Indexed keywords

BLACK SMOKERS; ELEMENTAL DISTRIBUTION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MINERALOGICAL ZONES; NUCLEAR MICROPROBES; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARTICLE INDUCED X-RAY EMISSION; PIXE ANALYSIS; PROTON INDUCED X-RAY EMISSIONS;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CHIMNEYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; HOT SPRINGS; PROTONS; SEAWATER; TRACE ELEMENTS; X RAY SCATTERING; X RAYS;

ION BEAMS;

EID: 77953136011     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2010.02.034     Document Type: Article

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