Processes influencing extreme as enrichment in shallow-sea hydrothermal fluids of milos island, greece

Chemical Geology

Volumn 348, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-26

  Price, Roy E ^a,b   Savov, Ivan ^c   Planer Friedrich, Britta ^d   Bühring, Solveig I ^a   Amend, Jan ^b   Pichler, Thomas ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Carlin type; Hydrothermal; Metal partitioning; Orpiment; Phase separation

Indexed keywords

CARLIN-TYPE; COASTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENT; HYDROTHERMAL; MAXIMUM CONCENTRATIONS; METAL PARTITIONING; METAMORPHIC BASEMENTS; ORPIMENT; WATER ROCK INTERACTIONS;

ARSENIC; DEPOSITS; GOLD DEPOSITS; HOT SPRINGS; ISOTOPES; MAGNESIUM; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PHASE SEPARATION; QUARTZ; SEAWATER; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; VAPORS;

CHLORINE;

ARSENIC; CARLIN-TYPE DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PARTITIONING; TRACE ELEMENT;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CYCLADES; GREECE; MILOS [CYCLADES]; MILOS [SOUTHERN AEGEAN]; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 84878917955     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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