Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Pedersen, Rolf B ^a   Rapp, Hans Tore ^a   Thorseth, Ingunn H ^a   Lilley, Marvin D ^b   Barriga, Fernando J A S ^c   Baumberger, Tamara ^d   Flesland, Kristin ^a   Fonseca, Rita ^c,e   Früh Green, Gretchen L ^e   Jorgensen, Steffen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAUNA; GEOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; VOLCANO;

EID: 78650051812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1124     Document Type: Article

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