Reactive Trace Metals as Indicators of Subduction and Ventilation Processes in the Ocean

Abstract

The continuation of the Polar work originally proposed to the ONR in 1990 for this proposal had to be curtailed after the cancellation of the Barents Sea cruise in 1990 and after the P.I. was denied space on the trans-Polar expedition during the summer of 1991. Instead, after consultation with the ONR program manager the P.I. participated in a cruise designed to use trace elements to survey the hydrothermal plumes generated by sea-floor hydrothermal activity between 9 deg and 11 deg N on the East Pacific Rise. The P.I.'s participation in this cruise was designed to determine the magnitude and variability of dissolved Al enrichment the hydrothermal plumes which result from the mixing of hydrothermal vent fluids with the overlying sea water.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 24, 1993
Accession Number
ADA273585

Entities

People

  • Chris Measures

Organizations

  • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Barents Sea
  • Bottom Waters
  • Chemistry
  • Data Sets
  • East Pacific Rise
  • Fluids
  • Low Temperature
  • Oceans
  • Sea Water
  • Seabed
  • Water

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Oceanography.
  • Organic Chemistry

Technology Areas

  • Space