Diversity of hydrothermal systems on slow spreading ocean ridges:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC American Geophysical Union ©2010
Series:Geophysical monograph 188
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
"The papers in this volume present a multidisciplinary overview of the remarkable emerging diversity of hydrothermal systems on slow spreading ocean ridges in the Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans. When hydrothermal systems were first found on the East Pacific Rise and other Pacific ocean ridges beginning in the late 1970s, the community consensus held that the magma delivery rate of intermediate to fast spreading was necessary to support black smoker-type high-temperature systems and associated chemosynthetic ecosystems and polymetallic sulfide deposits. Contrary to that consensus, hydrothermal systems not only occur on slow spreading ocean ridges but, as reported in this volume, are generally larger and spaced farther apart, exhibit different chemosynthetic ecosystems, produce larger mineral deposits, and occur in a much greater diversity of geologic settings than those systems in the Pacific."--Publisher's description
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 440 pages)
ISBN:9781118666616
1118666615
9781118672242
1118672240
9780875904788
0875904785

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