Central role of detachment faults in accretion of slow-spreading oceanic lithosphere

2008/10/01 by J. Escartı́n, J. Escartín, D. K. Smith +7 · 453 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Accretion (finance) #Basalt #Detachment fault #Fault (geology) #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Geophysics #Lithosphere #Mid-Atlantic Ridge #Mid-ocean ridge #Paleontology #Physics #Ridge #Ridge push #Seafloor spreading #Seismology #Tectonics #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1038/nature07333

published in Nature 455(7214), 790-794 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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Citations

• A global geochemical database structure for rocks
• Corrugated slip surfaces formed at ridge–transform intersections on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• Widespread active detachment faulting and core complex formation near 13° N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• Modes of faulting at mid-ocean ridges
• Megamullions and mullion structure defining oceanic metamorphic core complexes on the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge
• Development of oceanic detachment and asymmetric spreading at the Australian‐Antarctic Discordance

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