Deformation and Alteration Associated with Oceanic and Continental Detachment Fault Systems: Are They Similar?

Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 175-205

  John, Barbara E ^a   Cheadle, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical oceanography; Continentalcorecomplex; Detachmentfault; rheology; Hydrothermal deposits; Hydrothermal vents; Hydrothermalalteration; Oceaniccorecomplex; Sea floor spreading

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FELDSPAR; GEOLOGIC MODELS; HOT SPRINGS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORE DEPOSITS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; CONTINENTALCORECOMPLEX; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITS; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; HYDROTHERMALALTERATION; OCEANICCORECOMPLEX; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

FAULTING;

EID: 84952939461     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GM000772     Document Type: Chapter

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