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Geochemistry of deep-sea hydrothermal vent fluids from the Mid-Cayman Rise, Caribbean Sea

McDermott, Jill M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution2015

This thesis examines the controls on organic, inorganic, and volatile species distributions in hydrothermal fluids venting at Von Damm and Piccard, two vent fields at the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Rise, Earth’s deepest mid-ocean ridge. In Chapter 2, abiotic organic synthesis is shown to occur …

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