Reconstruyendo el pasado de agua de mar Mg / Ca y Sr / Ca de las venas de carbonato de calcio del flanco de la cresta

Rosalind M Coggon1, Damon A H Teagle, Christopher E Smith-Duque

  • 1Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 6, 2010
PubMed
Resumen

La química del agua de mar en el pasado, revelada por las relaciones magnesio/calcio (Mg/Ca) y estroncio/calcio (Sr/Ca), era más baja que hoy. Este hallazgo, basado en antiguos basaltos de la cresta oceánica, sugiere que el intercambio hidrotermal reducido influyó en estas proporciones.

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