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Hydrothermal Plumes Over Spreading-Center Axes: Global Distributions and Geological Inferences

Edward T. Baker

NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, Washington, USA

Christopher R. German

Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, Surrey, UK

Henry Elderfield

Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems: Physical, Chemical, Biological, and Geological Interactions, Geophysical Monograph 91, AGU, 47-71, 1995.
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