Primitive layered gabbros from fast-spreading lower oceanic crust

KM Gillis, JE Snow, A Klaus, N Abe, ÁB Adrião… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Three-quarters of the oceanic crust formed at fast-spreading ridges is composed of plutonic
rocks whose mineral assemblages, textures and compositions record the history of melt …

MORB differentiation: in situ crystallization in replenished-tapped magma chambers

LA Coogan, MJ O'Hara - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
The differentiation of mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) is investigated with a focus on
intermediate-to fast-spreading ridges and two recently proposed differentiation …

Volatile abundances and oxygen isotopes in basaltic to dacitic lavas on mid-ocean ridges: the role of assimilation at spreading centers

VD Wanless, MR Perfit, WI Ridley, PJ Wallace… - Chemical …, 2011 - Elsevier
Most geochemical variability in MOR basalts is consistent with low-to moderate-pressure
fractional crystallization of various mantle-derived parental melts. However, our geochemical …

[HTML][HTML] Hydraulically linked reservoirs simultaneously fed the 1975–1984 Krafla Fires eruptions: Insights from petrochemistry

SM Rooyakkers, KJ Carroll, AF Gutai… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The 1975–1984 Krafla Fires in northeast Iceland was the first plate-boundary rifting
episode to be tracked using seismic and geodetic monitoring. Geophysical observations …

Expedition 349 summary

CF Li, J Lin, DK Kulhanek, T Williams, R Bao, A Briais… - 2015 - boris.unibe.ch
C.-F. Li, J. Lin, DK Kulhanek, T. Williams, R. Bao, A. Briais, EA Brown, Y. Chen, PD Clift, FS
Colwell, KA Dadd, W.-W. Ding, I. Hernández-Almeida, X.-L. Huang, S. Hyun, T. Jiang, AAP …

Lithium and Li-isotopes in young altered upper oceanic crust from the East Pacific Rise

C Brant, LA Coogan, KM Gillis, WE Seyfried… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2012 - Elsevier
Lithium contents and Li-isotope ratios have been measured in a section of young oceanic
upper crust formed at the East Pacific Rise and exposed in the Hess Deep rift. The Li …

[PDF][PDF] The significance of sheeted dike complexes in ophiolites

PT Robinson, J Malpas, Y Dilek, MF Zhou - GSA Today, 2008 - academia.edu
Sheeted dike complexes, in which dike intrudes dike without intermediate screens of gabbro
or pillow lava, have long been considered key features of oceanic lithosphere and ophiolites …

Primitive melt replenishment and crystal-mush disaggregation in the weeks preceding the 2005–2006 eruption 9 50′ N, EPR

A Moore, LA Coogan, F Costa, MR Perfit - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2005–2006 eruption at∼ 9° 50′ N, East Pacific Rise provides an exceptional
opportunity to investigate the magma plumbing system beneath a well-studied ridge system …

The timescales of magma evolution at mid-ocean ridges

PA Brandl, M Regelous, C Beier, HSC O'Neill, O Nebel… - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
Oceanic crust is continuously created at mid-ocean ridges by decompression melting of the
upper mantle as it upwells due to plate separation. Decades of research on active spreading …

Geochemistry, petrogenesis and tectonic setting of the Samothraki mafic suite, NE Greece: Trace-element, isotopic and zircon age constraints

N Koglin, D Kostopoulos, T Reischmann - Tectonophysics, 2009 - Elsevier
The Samothraki mafic suite in the north-eastern Aegean Sea, Greece, is an 'in situ'magmatic
complex comprising gabbros, sparse dykes and basalt flows and pillows cut by late dolerite …