Holocene fluid venting at an extinct Cretaceous seamount, Canary archipelago

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 855-858

  Klügel, Andreas ^a   Hansteen, Thor H ^b   van den Bogaard, Paul ^b   Strauss, Harald ^c   Hauff, Folkmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCKS; CANARY ISLANDS; DRIVING FORCES; HOLOCENES; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; LOW-TEMPERATURE HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; MAGMATISMS; MASS EXCHANGE; MICROBIAL REDUCTION; OCEAN BASINS; OCEAN CRUST; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; SUBMARINE FLANKS;

BARITE; ISOTOPES; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SULFUR;

FLUIDS;

BARITE; CRETACEOUS; DISCHARGE; HOLOCENE; HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGMATISM; OCEANIC CRUST; OUTCROP; SEAMOUNT; SEAWATER;

CANARY ISLANDS; SPAIN;

BIVALVIA; CALLUNA VULGARIS; TRACHYTES; VESICOMYIDAE;

EID: 80053985045     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32006.1     Document Type: Article

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