Articles | Volume 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-16-73-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-16-73-2013
Workshop report
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05 Nov 2013
Workshop report |  | 05 Nov 2013

A plan for a 5 km-deep borehole at Reykjanes, Iceland, into the root zone of a black smoker on land

G. Ó. Friðleifsson, W. A. Elders, and G. Bignall

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Location/Setting: Instrumentation and observatories | Subject: Geology | Geoprocesses: Mineral and energy resources
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