• Vent fluids: Total gases, cations, anions, metals to be analysed at IGNS by gas and ion chromatography and ICP, respectively.
• Isotope analysis: NOAA, GNS, Kiel University.
• Mineralised samples: Petrography/minerology (GNS/University of Auckland/Kiel University); geochemistry (GNS)
• Rock samples: Petrography, geochemistry (GNS).
• Sediments: Minerology (GNS/Kiel University), geochemistry (GNS).
• Heat flow data: vent fluid temperatures/heat flow experiments (GNS).
• Video/still photograph interpretation: GNS, Kiel University, University of Auckland.

Minerology includes XRD and possible PIXE and microbe; geochemistry includes XRF, AA and ICP

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