Intrusion of basaltic sills into highly porous sediments, and resulting hydrothermal activity

Gerhardt Einsele; Joris M. Gieskes; Joseph Curray; David M. Moore; Eduardo Aguayo; Marie Pierre Aubry; Daniel Fornari; José Guerrero; Miriam Kastner; Kerry Kelts; Mitchell Lyle; Yasumochi Matoba; Adolfo Molina-Cruz; Jeffrey Niemitz; Jaime Rueda; Andrew Saunders; Hans Schrader; Bernd Simoneit; Victor Vacquier

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Intrusion of basaltic sills into highly porous sediments, and resulting hydrothermal activity

Gerhardt Einsele, Joris M. Gieskes, Joseph Curray, David M. Moore, Eduardo Aguayo, Marie Pierre Aubry, Daniel Fornari, José Guerrero, Miriam Kastner, Kerry Kelts, Mitchell Lyle, Yasumochi Matoba, Adolfo Molina-Cruz, Jeffrey Niemitz, Jaime Rueda, Andrew Saunders, Hans Schrader, Bernd Simoneit, Victor Vacquier

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Sill intrusions into highly porous sediments in the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, lead to low-grade metamorphism, thermal alteration and migration of organic compounds, marked changes in interstitial water chemistry, and large-scale expulsion of heated pore fluids. The latter process creates space for the intruding magma and initiates a hydrothermal system, which can explain the observed hydrothermal deposits around fault scarps on the basin floor.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	441-445
Number of pages	5
Journal	Nature
Volume	283
Issue number	5746
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/283441a0
State	Published - 1980
Externally published	Yes

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Einsele, G., Gieskes, J. M., Curray, J., Moore, D. M., Aguayo, E., Aubry, M. P., Fornari, D., Guerrero, J., Kastner, M., Kelts, K., Lyle, M., Matoba, Y., Molina-Cruz, A., Niemitz, J., Rueda, J., Saunders, A., Schrader, H., Simoneit, B., & Vacquier, V. (1980). Intrusion of basaltic sills into highly porous sediments, and resulting hydrothermal activity. Nature, 283(5746), 441-445. https://doi.org/10.1038/283441a0

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