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Science 28 April 1967:
Vol. 156. no. 3774, pp. 514 - 516
DOI: 10.1126/science.156.3774.514
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Red Sea: Detailed Survey of Hot-Brine Areas

John M. Hunt 1, Earl E. Hays 2, Egon T. Degens 3, and David A. Ross 3

1 Department of Chemistry and Geology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
2 Department of Geophysics
3 Department of Chemistry and Geology

A bathymetric and geophysical survey of the Red Sea rift valley between 21°10' and 21°30'N has defined three separate pools of hot brines. The brines and their associated heavy metals are believed to be periodically discharged from the eastern side of the largest deep, Atlantis II. Cores taken from the flanks of the deeps show repetitive cycles of sedimentation of hydrous amorphous iron oxides which fill most of Atlantis II Deep.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Precambrian Rift: Genesis of Strata-Bound Ore Deposits.
E. R. Kanasewich and E. R. Kanasewich (1968)
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