Hyperspectral mapping of an ancient hydrothermal system [abstract # 12979

• Main Author: Adrian Brown
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: the subject [eg. Walter; 1980; Hoffman et al; 1999]. The opportunity to correlate stromatolite; Huntington; North Pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.521.642; http://abrown.seti.org/AdrianBrownPhD/downloads/AJ Brown NAI Abstract 2003.pdf

Hydrothermal deposits have been suggested as locations of high importance in the search for fossilized forms of ancient biota on Earth [Walter and Des Marais, 1993; Farmer and Des Marais, 1999]. They occur where spatially confined warm (50 O) to hot (500O) fluids are in disequilibrium with their hos...