Mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of hydrothermal clay minerals beneath active hydrothermal fields at the Iheya North Knoll, Middle Okinawa Trough


Jun-Ichiro Ishibashi1, Shuhei Totsuka1, Yusuke Kira1, Saki Tsutsumi1, Toru Yamasaki2, Yutaro Takaya3, Tatsuo Nozaki4, Hidenori Kumagai4, Lena Maeda5, Yusuke Kubo6 and On-board members of Chikyu SIP Cruises, (1)Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (2)AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, (4)JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, (5)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan, (6)JAMSTEC, Kochi Core Center, Nankoku, Japan