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Nature Geoscience 2, 463 - 464 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ngeo564
Subject Categories: Seismology | Structural geology, tectonics and geodynamics
Marine geophysics: Where there's smoke there's fire
Maya Tolstoy1
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Maya Tolstoy is at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, New York 10964–8000, USA.
e-mail: tolstoy@ldeo.columbia.edu
Abstract
Seafloor vents spewing mineral-rich plumes of hydrothermal fluid — termed black smokers — can persist at mid-ocean ridges for decades or longer. Earthquake data indicate that ongoing magma injection may determine their locations.
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