Volcanoes, fluids, and life at mid-ocean ridge spreading centers

DS Kelley, JA Baross, JR Delaney - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The recent recognition of a potentially vast, unexplored hot microbial biosphere
associated with active volcanism along the global mid-ocean ridge network has …

Sea-floor tectonics and submarine hydrothermal systems

MD Hannington, CEJ De Ronde, S Petersen - 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The discovery of metal-depositing hot springs on the sea floor, and especially their link to
chemosynthetic life, was among the most compelling and significant scientific advances of …

Advances in seismic imaging of magma and crystal mush

M Paulatto, EEE Hooft, K Chrapkiewicz… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Seismic imaging methods have provided detailed three-dimensional constraints on the
physical properties of magmatic systems leading to invaluable insight into the storage …

Tectonic stress and magma chamber size as controls on dike propagation: Constraints from the 1975–1984 Krafla rifting episode

WR Buck, P Einarsson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The best‐studied dike intrusion events on a divergent plate boundary occurred along the
Krafla segment of the northern rift zone in Iceland from 1975–1984. Seismic and geodetic …

Melt–rock reaction in the lower oceanic crust and its implications for the genesis of mid-ocean ridge basalt

CJ Lissenberg, HJB Dick - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2008 - Elsevier
Primitive cumulates from a 2–3 Ma old gabbro massif exposed in the Kane Megamullion
(23° N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge) contain abundant clinopyroxene with high Mg#(86–91). Such …

Crustal thickness and structure along three contrasting spreading segments of the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge, 33.5–35 N

EEE Hooft, RS Detrick, DR Toomey… - Journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
The crustal thickness and crustal and upper mantle structure along the rift valleys of three
segments of the northern Mid‐Atlantic Ridge with contrasting morphologies and gravity …

The Earth's 'missing'niobium may be in the core

J Wade, BJ Wood - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
As the Earth's metallic core segregated from the silicate mantle, some of the moderately
siderophile ('iron-loving') elements such as vanadium and chromium, are thought to have …

Imaging the mantle beneath Iceland using integrated seismological techniques

RM Allen, G Nolet, WJ Morgan… - Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Using a combination of body wave and surface wave data sets to reveal the mantle plume
and plume head, this study presents a tomographic image of the mantle structure beneath …

Plume‐driven plumbing and crustal formation in Iceland

RM Allen, G Nolet, WJ Morgan… - Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Through combination of surface wave and body wave constraints we derive a three‐
dimensional (3‐D) crustal S velocity model and Moho map for Iceland. It reveals a vast …

Protracted construction of gabbroic crust at a slow spreading ridge: Constraints from 206Pb/238U zircon ages from Atlantis Massif and IODP Hole U1309D (30°N …

CB Grimes, BE John, MJ Cheadle… - Geochemistry …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Sensitive high‐resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) U‐Pb zircon ages of 24 samples from
oceanic crust recovered in Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Hole U1309D and …