The abundance of seafloor massive sulfide deposits

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1155-1158

  Hannington, Mark ^a   Jamieson, John ^a   Monecke, Thomas ^b   Petersen, Sven ^c   Beaulieu, Stace ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

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

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-ARC; BLACK SMOKERS; CENOZOIC; COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT; COPPER AND ZINC; DEEP-SEA MINING; GLOBAL DEMAND; GLOBAL OCEAN; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NEOVOLCANIC ZONES; OCCURRENCE MODEL; PLUME STUDY; SEAFLOOR MASSIVE SULFIDES; SULFIDE DEPOSIT; SUSTAINABLE USE;

COPPER; DEPOSITS; SULFUR DEPOSITS; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

COPPER DEPOSITS;

ABUNDANCE; CENOZOIC; COPPER; GEOACCUMULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MASSIVE SULFIDE; SEAFLOOR; SPREADING CENTER; SULFIDE GROUP; ZINC;

EID: 80955139336     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32468.1     Document Type: Article

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