The fate of crustal material recycled into the convecting mantle by plate tectonics is important
for understanding the chemical and physical evolution of the planet. Marked isotopic …

Offshore drilling in basins with a significant basaltic component poses a number of
complications to drilling operations. These include slow and variable rates of penetration …

In the absence of a complete profile through fast‐spreading modern oceanic crust, we
established a reference profile through the whole paleo crust of the Samail ophiolite …

We present textures and halogen and trace-element compositions of apatites in intrusive
rocks from the dike-gabbro transition zone of a fast-spreading mid-ocean ridge, which was …

Mafic magmatic rocks formed between ca. 615 and 560 Ma along the Neoproterozoic
margins of Baltica and Laurentia are classically attributed to continental rifting heralding the …

In 1909, Croatian seismologist Andrija Mohorovičić made a bold prediction—that Earth
consists of distinct layers of rock above its core. On analyzing an earthquake that had struck …

Although ocean crust covers over 60% of Earth's surface, the processes that form, cool, and
alter the ocean crust are not completely understood. We utilize shortwave infrared micro …