We describe best-fitting angular velocities and MORVEL, a new closure-enforced set of
angular velocities for the geologically current motions of 25 tectonic plates that collectively …

The formation of oceanic detachment faults is well established from inactive, corrugated fault
planes exposed on sea floor formed along ridges spreading at less than 80 km Myr–1 (refs) …

Hydrothermal processes and seafloor massive sulfide (SMS) deposits have different
characteristics at fast and slow spreading mid-ocean ridges. One such parameter is the age …

The results of detailed textural, mineral chemical, and petrophysical studies shed new light
on the poorly constrained fluid‐rock reaction pathways during retrograde serpentinization at …

Oceanic core complexes (OCCs) provide access to intrusive and ultramafic sections of
young lithosphere and their structure and evolution contain clues about how the balance …

Oceanic core complexes are the uplifted footwalls of very-large-offset low-angle normal
faults that exhume lower crust and mantle rocks onto the seafloor at slow-spreading ridges …

We present first results of a petrographic study of hydrothermally altered peridotites drilled
during Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 209 in the 15° 20′ N fracture Zone area on the …

We characterize the textural and geochemical features of ocean crustal zircon recovered
from plagiogranite, evolved gabbro, and metamorphosed ultramafic host-rocks collected …

Normal faults are ubiquitous on mid-ocean ridges and are expected to develop increasing
offset with reduced spreading rate as the proportion of tectonic extension increases …

Oceanic core complexes expose gabbroic rocks on the seafloor via detachment faulting,
often associated with serpentinized peridotite. The thickness of these serpentinite units is …