Seafloor spreading of the third arm of the Afar triple junction: A review [PDF]
HeliyonThe only place within the East African Rift System where seafloor spreading is being manifested along with new crust being formed is at the Afar triple junction, a seismically active area defined by latitude 9°N to 14°N and longitude 43E° to 49E ...
Duke N. Nyangena +2 more
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Recognizing detachment-mode seafloor spreading in the deep geological past. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2013 Large-offset oceanic detachment faults are a characteristic of slow- and ultraslow-spreading ridges, leading to the formation of oceanic core complexes (OCCs) that expose upper mantle and lower crustal rocks on the seafloor.
Maffione M, Morris A, Anderson MW.
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13 million years of seafloor spreading throughout the Red Sea Basin [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2021 Here, based on earthquake data, vertical gravity gradient data and high-resolution bathymetry, the authors show that the Red Sea is not in transition from rifting to spreading as previously proposed.
Nico Augustin +3 more
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Ignition of the southern Atlantic seafloor spreading machine without hot-mantle booster [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 The source of massive magma production at volcanic rifted margins remains strongly disputed since the first observations of thick lava piles in the 1980s.
Daniel Sauter +8 more
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Seismological Evidence for Girdled Olivine Lattice‐Preferred Orientation in Oceanic Lithosphere and Implications for Mantle Deformation Processes During Seafloor Spreading [PDF]
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2022 Seismic anisotropy produced by aligned olivine in oceanic lithosphere offers a window into mid‐ocean ridge (MOR) dynamics. Yet, interpreting anisotropy in the context of grain‐scale deformation processes and strain observed in laboratory experiments and ...
J. B. Russell +7 more
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Reappraisal of the Continental Rifting and Seafloor Spreading That Formed the South China Sea
GeosciencesRecently published marine geophysical and seafloor drilling data permit a substantive reappraisal of the rifting and spreading that formed the South China Sea (SCS).
Brian Taylor
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Discovery of the first hydrothermal field along the 500-km-long Knipovich Ridge offshore Svalbard (the Jøtul field) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsOceanic spreading centers north of Iceland are characterized by ultraslow spreading rates, and related hydrothermal activity has been detected in the water column and at the seafloor along nearly all ridge segments.
Gerhard Bohrmann +14 more
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Consequences of a Global Slowdown in Seafloor Spreading for Sea Level and Mantle Heat Loss
Geochemistry, Geophysics, GeosystemsVariations in global mean sea level over millions of years originate from changes in both the climate and solid Earth systems. Most previous studies of the solid Earth contribution to sea level focused on the past 100 Myr or longer with a temporal ...
Colleen A. Dalton +3 more
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Lithospheric Structure and Extensional Style of the Red Sea Rift Segments [PDF]
Lithosphere, 2023 The Red Sea provides an opportunity to study the processes during the transition from continental rifting to early-stage seafloor spreading during ocean initiation.
Kuruvamana Satheeshbabu Sreenidhi +2 more
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Insights on the Indian Ocean Tectonics and Geophysics Supported by GMT [PDF]
Riscuri şi Catastrofe, 2020 This paper presented analyzed and summarized data on geological and geophysical settings about the tectonics and geological structure of the seafloor of the Indian Ocean by thematic visualization of the topographic, geophysical and geological data.
Polina Lemenkova
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