Selective leaching studies of sediments from a seamount flank in the Central Indian Basin: Resolving hydrothermal, volcanogenic and terrigenous sources using major, trace and rare-earth elements

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 121, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 49-66

  Mascarenhas Pereira, M B L ^a   Nath, B Nagender ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Central Indian basin; Fracture zone; Intraplate seamount; Major, trace and rare earth element geochemistry; Metalliferous sediments; Selective leaching

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE ZONE; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; LEACHING; MARINE SEDIMENT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEAMOUNT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TRACE ELEMENT;

CENTRAL INDIAN BASIN; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77954700062     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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