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Focused fluid

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Near slow-spreading oceanic ridges, hydrothermal vent fluids can take an express loop guided by shallow-angle faults in the oceanic crust.

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  1. McCaig, A. M., Cliff, R. A., Escartin, J., Fallick, A. E. & MacLeod, C. J. Oceanic detachment faults focus very large volumes of black smoker fluid. Geology 35, 935–938 (2007).

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Langenberg, H. Focused fluid. Nature Geosci (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo.2007.30

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