Chemical characteristics of newly discovered black smoker fluids and associated hydrothermal plumes at the Rodriguez Triple Junction, Central Indian Ridge

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The chemical characteristics of hydrothermal fluids in the Indian Ocean have been revealed for the first time. A hydrothermal field (called the Kairei field), including active black smoker chimneys, was discovered by ROV Kaiko dives at 25°19.17'S, 70°02.40'E (~2450 m depth) on the southwestern flank of an off-axis knoll located ~15 miles north of the Rodriguez Triple Junction, Central Indian Ridge, after detailed tow-yo surveys of the hydrothermal plume distribution. The temperature of the fluid expelled from the most active chimney was almost stable (359-360°C) throughout three successive days of fluid sampling. The endmember fluid has a chemical composition similar to the hydrothermal fluids sampled from sediment-starved mid-ocean ridges in the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, suggesting typical interactions between hot fluid and mid-ocean ridge basalts in the subseafloor reaction zone.

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