Rare earth element systematics in boiled fluids from basalt-hosted geothermal systems

• Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• Main Authors: Fowler, Andrew PG, Zierenberg, Robert A, Reed, Mark H, Palandri, James, Óskarsson, Finnbogi, Gunnarsson, Ingvi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2019
• Subjects: Rare earth elements; Boiling; Geothermal; Hydrothermal; Geochemical modeling; Aqueous speciation; Apatite partitioning; Geochemistry; Geology; Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; Geochemistry & Geophysics; Iceland
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4687r8sd; https://escholarship.org/content/qt4687r8sd/qt4687r8sd.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.10.001

Hydrothermal processes that lead to REE fractionation and redistribution are important for understanding water-rock interactions in geothermal energy resources and mineral deposits, and for determining how submarine hydrothermal activity affects the composition of oceanic crust. Much previous work o...