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Chemistry of hot springs on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

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The first hydrothermal fluid samples collected along the slow-spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) are remarkably similar in composition and temperature to fluids collected along the shallower, faster-spreading East Pacific Rise (EPR). The MAR fluids, like those from the EPR, appear to be in equilibrium with a greenschist-facies mineral assemblage. In contrast to the EPR, the more fractured nature of the MAR apparently allows fluids at one of the MAR sites to interact with weathered basalt.

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  1. Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E34-201, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

    A. C. Campbell, M. R. Palmer, G. P. Klinkhammer, T. S. Bowers & J. M. Edmond

  2. Geologic Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, 77004, USA

    J. R. Lawrence & J. F. Casey

  3. Department of Chemistry, WHOI, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543, USA

    G. Thompson & S. Humphris

  4. NOAA/AMOL, 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, Florida, 33149, USA

    P. Rona

  5. Department of Geology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 27706, USA

    J. A. Karson

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Campbell, A., Palmer, M., Klinkhammer, G. et al. Chemistry of hot springs on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Nature 335, 514–519 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/335514a0

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