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Transfer learning reconstructs submarine topography for global mid-ocean ridges

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
Mid-ocean ridges are unique, tectonically active geographical units on Earth that profoundly control the ocean environment and dynamics at the global scale.
Yinghui Jiang   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Large Igneous Province Record Through Time and Implications for Secular Environmental Changes and Geological Time‐Scale Boundaries

open access: yesGeophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021

Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact

An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst   +8 more
wiley  

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Origin of Alkaline Basaltic Intrusive Rocks in an Exhumed Accretionary Complex: Implications for Past Petit‐Spot Volcanism in the Ocean

open access: yesGeochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2023
Accreted basaltic rocks are expected to provide information on intraplate volcanism in the oceans. Basaltic rocks, originating from mid‐ocean ridges, plateaus, and seamounts, have been reported from exhumed accretionary complexes. However, basaltic rocks
Ginta Motohashi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Persistent Magma‐Rich Waves Beneath Mid‐Ocean Ridges Explain Long Periodicity on Ocean Floor Fabric

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, 2022
The ocean floor makes up the majority of the Earth's surface and yet, its geomorphology is not fully understood. Recent debate has focused on whether sea level changes—driven by Milankovitch glacial cycles—generate the abyssal hill fabric of the ocean ...
S. J. Sim
doaj   +1 more source

meltPT: A Python package for basaltic whole-rock thermobarometric analysis with application to Hawaiʻi

open access: yesVolcanica, 2023
Quantifying the depths and temperatures from which igneous rocks are derived is an important step in understanding volcanic, magmatic and mantle processes.
Fergus McNab, Patrick Ball
doaj   +1 more source

Temperatures in ambient mantle and plumes: Constraints from basalts, picrites, and komatiites [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Several methods have been developed to assess the thermal state of the mantle below oceanic ridges, islands, and plateaus, on the basis of the petrology and geochemistry of erupted lavas. One leads to the conclusion that mantle potential temperature (i.e.
Lesher, C. M.   +25 more
core   +1 more source

Extreme Heterogeneity in Mid‐Ocean Ridge Mantle Revealed in Lavas From the 8°20′N Near‐Axis Seamount Chain

open access: yesGeochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021
Lavas that have erupted at near‐axis seamounts provide windows into mid‐ocean ridge mantle heterogeneity and melting systematics which are not easily observed on‐axis at fast‐spreading centers.
Molly Anderson   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Petrological systematics of mid-ocean ridge basalts: Constraints on melt generation beneath ocean ridges [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) are a consequence of pressure-release melting beneath ocean ridges, and contain much information concerning melt formation, melt migration and heterogeneity within the upper mantle.
Langmuir, CH, Klein, EM, Plank, T
core   +1 more source

A joint geochemical–geophysical record of time-dependent mantle convection south of Iceland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The North Atlantic V-Shaped Ridges (VSRs) provide a spatially extensive and clear record of unsteady mantle convective circulation over >40 My>40 My.
Jones, S.M.; id_orcid   +16 more
core   +1 more source

Hydrothermal plumes as hotspots for deep-ocean heterotrophic microbial biomass production

open access: yesNature Communications, 2021
Hydrothermal vents are biogeochemically important, but their contribution to the carbon cycle is poorly constrained. Here the authors build a biogeochemical model that estimates autotrophic and heterotrophic production rates of microbial communities ...
Cécile Cathalot   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

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