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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

  1. 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


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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