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Science 11 April 1975:
Vol. 188. no. 4184, pp. 150 - 152
DOI: 10.1126/science.188.4184.150
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Submarine Barite-Opal Rocks of Hydrothermal Origin

K. K. Bertine 1 and J. B. Keene 2

1 San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92115
2 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92037

Unusual submarine rocks consisting of barite, opal, and volcanic detritus were recovered from the Lau Basin northeast of Australia. It is proposed that these rocks were formed when hydrothermal solutions emanating from a fracture zone offsetting the active spreading center in the Lau Basin came into contact with cooler ocean waters.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Hydrothermal and volcaniclastic sedimentation on the Tonga-Kermadec Ridge and in its adjacent marginal basins.
D. S. Cronan, R. Hodkinson, S. A. Moorby, G. P. Glasby, K. Knedler, and J. Thomson (1984)
Geological Society, London, Special Publications 16, 137-149
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