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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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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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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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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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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Magnetic anomaly lineations in the Northeastern South China Sea and their implications for initial seafloor spreading [PDF]
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Ridge jumps occurred during the spreading process of the South China Sea. Recent research on the lower crustal reflectors event on seismic profiles found at least two southward ridge jumps, but only one has been confirmed by geomagnetic data.
Zhaocai Wu +4 more
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Timing of Seafloor Spreading Cessation at the Macquarie Ridge Complex (SW Pacific) and Implications for Upper Mantle Heterogeneity [PDF]
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2021 The Macquarie Ridge Complex (MRC) on the Australia‐Pacific plate boundary south of New Zealand is an extinct mid‐ocean ridge that has experienced a complex tectonic history and produced highly heterogeneous mid‐ocean ridge basalts (MORBs).
Qiang Jiang +9 more
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A Global Data Set of Present‐Day Oceanic Crustal Age and Seafloor Spreading Parameters
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2020 We present an updated oceanic crustal age grid and a set of complementary grids including spreading rate, asymmetry, direction, and obliquity. Our data set is based on a selected set of magnetic anomaly identifications and the plate tectonic model of ...
Maria Seton +8 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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