New insights into hydrothermal vent processes in the unique shallow-submarine arc-volcano, Kolumbo (Santorini), Greece

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kilias, Stephanos P ^a   Nomikou, Paraskevi ^a   Papanikolaou, Dimitrios ^a   Polymenakou, Paraskevi N ^b   Godelitsas, Athanasios ^a   Argyraki, Ariadne ^a   Carey, Steven ^c   Gamaletsos, Platon ^a,d   Mertzimekis, Theo J ^a   Stathopoulou, Eleni ^a   Goettlicher, Joerg ^d   Steininger, Ralph ^d   Betzelou, Konstantina ^a   Livanos, Isidoros ^a   Christakis, Christos ^a,b   Bell, Katherine Croff ^c   Scoullos, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GREECE; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; VOLCANO; ANALYSIS;

ARCHAEA; GREECE; HYDROTHERMAL VENTS; METALS; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

EID: 84882792898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02421     Document Type: Article

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