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Upwelling of hydrothermal solutions through ridge flank sediments shown by pore water profiles

C R Maris, M L Bender

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |May 7, 1982
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    hydrothermal upwellingpore water chemistrysediment geochemistryfluid-rock interaction

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