The monograph summarizes results of studies of hydrothermal fields on the ocean floor, hydrothermal plumes and metalliferous sediments. Hydrothermal ore manifestations formed in different geodynamic settings, with different character of volcanism in different facial conditions of deposition are described. Causes of non-uniformity of hydrothermal system functioning in different parts of the ocean and therefore variability of hydrothermal deposits are under consideration. On the base of found relationships of these irregularities with geodynamics, volcanism and sedimentation a new classification of hydrothermal processes and genetic models of hydrothermal ore formation in the ocean have been created. Regularities of hydrothermal sedimentary material dispersion in bottom waters are discussed.

Supplement to: Bogdanov, Yury A; Lisitzin, Alexander P; Sagalevich, Anatoly M; Gurvich, Evgeny G (2006): Hydrothermal Ore Genesis of the Ocean Floor. Nauka Publ. (Moscow): in Russian, 527 pp