Thin crust as evidence for depleted mantle supporting the Marion Rise

2013/02/01 by Huaiyang Zhou, Henry J. B. Dick, H. J. Dick · 153 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Asthenosphere #Crust #Flood basalt #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Lithosphere #Mantle (geology) #Mid-ocean ridge #Paleontology #Rift #Tectonics #Volcanism #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1038/nature11842

published in Nature 494(7436), 195-200 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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Citations

• MORB generation beneath the ultraslow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge (9–25°E): Major element chemistry and the importance of process versus source
• Tectonic interpretation of the Andrew Bain transform fault: Southwest Indian Ocean
• Central role of detachment faults in accretion of slow-spreading oceanic lithosphere
• Corrugated slip surfaces formed at ridge–transform intersections on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• Modes of seafloor generation at a melt-poor ultraslow-spreading ridge
• An ultraslow-spreading class of ocean ridge
• Widespread active detachment faulting and core complex formation near 13° N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• Evidence from gravity anomalies for interactions of the Marion and Bouvet hotspots with the Southwest Indian Ridge: effects of transform offsets
• Life cycle of oceanic core complexes

Cited by

• Jurassic zircons from the Southwest Indian Ridge
• Rodrigues triple junction [wikipedia]
• Southwest Indian Ridge [wikipedia]