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hydrothermal solution

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hydrothermal solution [‚hī·drə′thər·məl sə′lü·shən]
(geology)
Hot, residual watery fluids derived from magmas during the later stages of their crystallization and commonly containing large amounts of dissolved metals which are deposited as ore veins in fissures along which the solutions often move.


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A new type of hydrogen- and methane-rich hydrothermal solutions in the Rift zone of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The hydrothermal solutions came up through a network of fractures and into the sedimentary cover rocks.
5 miles wide has been variably altered by shallow level hydrothermal solutions.
 
 
 
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