Hydrothermal plumes over the Carlsberg Ridge, Indian Ocean

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ray, Durbar ^a   Kamesh Raju, K A ^a   Baker, Edward T ^b   Srinivas Rao, A ^a   Mudholkar, Abhay V ^a   Lupton, John E ^b   Surya Prakash, L ^a   Gawas, Rekha B ^a   Vijaya Kumar, T ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Carlsberg Ridge; helium; hydrothermal plume; optical anomaly

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; HELIUM; LIGHT SCATTERING; MANGANESE; REDOX REACTIONS;

ACTIVE SITE; CARLSBERG RIDGE; FLUID SOURCES; FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; INDIAN OCEAN; LOCAL MAXIMUM; MID ATLANTIC RIDGE; MULTIPLE SOURCE; OFF-AXIS; OPTICAL ANOMALY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION POTENTIALS; SAMPLING LOCATION; SEAFLOOR HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; SERPENTINIZATION; STRONG SIGNAL; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TRIPLE JUNCTION; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; VALLEY FLOOR; WATER COLUMNS; WATER SAMPLES;

SCATTERING;

BASALT; GABBRO; HELIUM; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL PLUME; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; MANGANESE; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; SEAFLOOR; SERPENTINIZATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARLSBERG RIDGE; INDIAN OCEAN; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 84855969368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003888     Document Type: Article

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