Submarine hydrothermal activity and gold-rich mineralization at Brothers Volcano, Kermadec Arc, New Zealand

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 541-584

  de Ronde, Cornel E J ^a   Massoth, Gary J ^a,l   Butterfield, David A ^b   Christenson, Bruce W ^a   Ishibashi, Junichiro ^c   Ditchburn, Robert G ^a   Hannington, Mark D ^d   Brathwaite, Robert L ^a   Lupton, John E ^e   Kamenetsky, Vadim S ^f   Graham, Ian J ^a   Zellmer, Georg F ^g   Dziak, Robert P ^e   Embley, Robert W ^e   Dekov, Vesselin M ^h   Munnik, Frank ⁱ   Lahr, Janine ^j   Evans, Leigh J ^e   Takai, Ken ^k  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^g INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^j FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^k JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^l Mass Ex3 Consulting LLC   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALDERA; GEOCHEMISTRY; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; IRON OXIDE; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; MINERALOGY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT; VOLCANO;

KERMADEC ARC; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79960590502     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00126-011-0345-8     Document Type: Article

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