Resilience of benthic deep-sea fauna to mining activities

S Gollner, S Kaiser, L Menzel, DOB Jones… - Marine Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
With increasing demand for mineral resources, extraction of polymetallic sulphides at
hydrothermal vents, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts at seamounts, and polymetallic …

Diversity of magmatism, hydrothermal processes and microbial interactions at mid-ocean ridges

GL Früh-Green, DS Kelley, MD Lilley… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Hydrothermal circulation and alteration at mid-ocean ridges and ridge flanks have a key role
in regulating seawater chemistry and global chemical fluxes, and support diverse …

[PDF][PDF] 4.13-Composition of the oceanic crust

WM White, EM Klein, HD Holland… - Treatise on …, 2014 - dukespace.lib.duke.edu
When Harry Hess first proposed the theory of seafloor spreading, he imagined that mantle
peridotite upwelling at midocean ridges reacted with water to form a serpentinite oceanic …

[HTML][HTML] Mining of deep-sea seafloor massive sulfides: a review of the deposits, their benthic communities, impacts from mining, regulatory frameworks and …

RE Boschen, AA Rowden, MR Clark… - Ocean & coastal …, 2013 - Elsevier
Seafloor massive sulfide (SMS) deposits form in a suite of hydrothermal settings across a
range of depths. Many deposits are of a tonnage and mineral grade comparable to land …

Geophysical constraints on the dynamics of spreading centres from rifting episodes on land

TJ Wright, F Sigmundsson, C Pagli, M Belachew… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Most of the Earth's crust is created along 60,000 km of mid-ocean ridge system. Here,
tectonic plates spread apart and, in doing so, gradually build up stress. This stress is …

Electrical image of passive mantle upwelling beneath the northern East Pacific Rise

K Key, S Constable, L Liu, A Pommier - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Melt generated by mantle upwelling is fundamental to the production of new oceanic crust at
mid-ocean ridges, yet the forces controlling this process are debated,. Passive-flow models …

Length and timescales of rift faulting and magma intrusion: The Afar rifting cycle from 2005 to present

C Ebinger, A Ayele, D Keir, J Rowland… - Annual Review of …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Although fault and magmatic processes have achieved plate spreading at mid-ocean ridges
throughout Earth's history, discrete rifting episodes have rarely been observed. This paper …

Seismic constraints on caldera dynamics from the 2015 Axial Seamount eruption

WSD Wilcock, M Tolstoy, F Waldhauser, C Garcia… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Seismic observations in volcanically active calderas are challenging. A new cabled
observatory atop Axial Seamount on the Juan de Fuca ridge allows unprecedented real-time …

Exploring the ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in a metacommunity framework

LS Mullineaux, A Metaxas, SE Beaulieu… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Species inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents are strongly influenced by the geological
setting, as it provides the chemical-rich fluids supporting the food web, creates the …

Evidence for focused magmatic accretion at segment centers from lateral dike injections captured beneath the Red Sea rift in Afar

D Keir, IJ Hamling, A Ayele, E Calais… - …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Continental breakup occurs through repeated episodes of mechanical stretching and dike
injection within discrete, narrow rift segments. However, the time and length scales of the …