Fluid-rock interactions in the lower oceanic crust: Thermodynamic models of hydrothermal alteration

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• hydrothermal alteration 87%
• oceanic crust 80%
• lower crust 79%
• thermodynamics 61%
• fluid 45%
• rock 38%
• amphibole 29%
• seawater 20%
• chlorite 14%
• temperature 13%
• plagioclase 13%
• penetration 11%
• crust 10%
• analcime 10%
• prehnite 10%
• spreading center 8%
• water-rock interaction 8%
• diopside 8%
• thermal regime 8%
• mid-ocean ridge 8%
• ocean 8%
• epidote 8%
• mineral 8%
• hydrothermal system 7%
• gabbro 7%
• hornblende 7%
• hydrothermal fluid 7%
• clinopyroxene 7%
• oxygen isotope 6%
• relative abundance 6%
• magnetite 6%
• water 6%
• olivine 6%
• texture 5%
• isotope 5%
• quartz 5%
• heating 5%
• product 3%

Physics & Astronomy

• crusts 100%
• rocks 76%
• thermodynamics 53%
• fluids 47%
• amphiboles 45%
• interactions 31%
• plagioclase 20%
• water 15%
• oceans 14%
• minerals 13%
• hydrothermal systems 12%
• mid-ocean ridges 12%
• gabbro 12%
• penetration 10%
• temperature 9%
• oxygen isotopes 9%
• olivine 8%
• magnetite 7%
• retaining 7%
• ridges 6%
• indication 5%
• quartz 5%
• isotopes 5%
• textures 5%
• products 4%
• heating 4%

Chemical Compounds

• Thermodynamics 49%
• Chlorite 44%
• Amount 34%
• Actinolite 30%
• Mineral 25%
• Reaction Path 16%
• Spreading 16%
• Magnetite 16%
• Crystalline Texture 15%
• Quartz 14%
• Isotope 13%
• Chemical Element 12%