Guest Speaker Readings & Presentations
Mike Cheadle's Talk Abstract, Suggested Readings, & Presentation
Talk Summary (pdf)
Pito Deep - Revisiting Pacific Lower Crust, the 3rd Dimension of Magnetic Stripes and Long, Lost & New Found Hydrothermal Vents
PowerPoint Presentation (pdf)
Pito Deep - Revisiting Pacific Lower Crust, the 3rd Dimension of Magnetic Stripes and Long, Lost & New Found Hydrothermal Vents
Shuoshuo Han et al.: Architecture of on-and off-axis magma bodies at EPR 9 degrees 37 40' N and implications for oceanic crustal accretion, Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 390 (2014) 31 - 44
Required reading
Neil W. Perk et al.: Petrology and geochemistry of primitive lower oceanic crust from Pito Deep: implications for the accretion of the lower crust at the Southern East Pacific Rise, Contrib Mineral Petrol (2007) 154:575 - 59
Required reading
David F. Naar, and R.N. Hey: Tectonic Evolution of the Easter Microplate,JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH , VOL. 96, NO. 85, PAGES 7961-7993, MAY 10, 1991
Additional Reading
Enrico Bonatti's Suggested Readings & Presentation
Click link here: https://youtu.be/VcKeZikr4cE
Transition from a Continental to an Oceanic Rift in the Northern Red Sea
Enrico Bonatti, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University
W. Bosworth: Geological Evolution of the Red Sea: Historical Background, Review and Synthesis Chapter, In book: The Red Sea , Edition: 1, Chapter: 3, Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Editors: N.M.A. Rasul and I.C.F. Stewart, pp.45-78, January 2015 (pdf)
Required reading
Cochran J. R. (2005) Northern Red Sea: Nucleation of an oceanic spreading center within a continental rift. Geochim., Geophys., Geosystems , 6, Q03006.
Required reading
Bonatti E. (1985) Punctiform initiation of seafloor spreading in the Red Sea during transition from a continental to an oceanic rift. Nature , 316, 33-37.
Additional resource reading
Bonatti E., Ottonello G. and Hamlyn P.R. (1986) Peridotites from the island Zabargad (Red Sea). Journ. Geophys. Res. ,91, 599-631.
Additional resource
Ligi M. et al. (2011) Initial burst of oceanic crust accretion in the Red Sea due to edge-driven mantle convection. Geology , 39, 1019-1022.
Additional resource
Ligi M. et al. (2012) Birth of an ocean in the Red Sea: Initial pangs. Geochim., Geophys., Geosystems , 13, Q08009.
Additional reading
Al Hofmann's Talk Abstract, Suggested Readings & Presentation
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Where Did All the Subducted Sediments Go?
A.W. Hofmann, K.P. Jochum, M. Seufert and W.M. White: Nb and Pb in oceanic basalts: new constraints on mantle evolution, Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 79 (1986) 33-45
Required reading
A.W. Hofmann: Sampling Mantle Heterogeneity through Oceanic Basalts:Isotopes and Trace Elements, Treatise on Geochemistry , Volume 2. Editor: Richard W. Carlson. Executive Editors: Heinrich D. Holland and Karl K. Turekian. pp. 568. ISBN 0-08-043751-6. Elsevier, 2003., p.61-101
Required reading
Catherine Chauvel et al.: Role of recycled oceanic basalt and sediment in generating the Hf - Nd mantle array, nature geoscience , Vol 1 Jan. 2008, www.nature.com/naturegeoscience
Additional resource reading
David Sandwell's Talk Abstract, Suggested Readings & Presentation
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Origin of Transform Faults and Gravity Rolls
Ravi R. Kumar and Richard G. Gordon: Horizontal thermal contraction of oceanic lithosphere: The ultimate limit to the rigid plate approximation, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH , VOL. 114, B01403, doi:10.1029/2007JB005473, 2009
Required reading
David Sandwell and Yuri Fialko: Warping and cracking of the Pacific plate by thermal contraction, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH , VOL. 109, B10411, doi:10.1029/2004JB003091, 2004
Required reading
William F. Haxby and E. M. Parmentier: Thermal Contraction and the State of Stress in the Oceanic Lithosphere, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH , VOL. 93, NO. 86, PAGES 6419-6429, JUNE 10, 1988
Additional reading
D. L. Turcotte: Are Transform Faults Thermal Contraction Cracks?, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH , VOL. 79, NO. 7, JUNE 10, 1974
Additional reading
Bastiaan Collette: Thermal contraction joints in a spreading seafloor as origin of fracture zones, <i<Nature, 251, 299 - 300 (27 September 1974)
Additional reading
David Sandwell: Thermal Stress and transform Faults in Spreading wax, NSF Finale Project Report , 7/1/86 - 6/30/88
Additional reading
Henry Dick's Talk Abstract, Suggested Readings & Presentation
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The Southwest Indian Ridge, Remelting the Gondwanan Mantle Henry Dick Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Henry J. B. Dick, Jian Lin & Hans Schouten: An ultraslow-spreading class of ocean ridge, NATURE |Vol. 426 | 27 November 2003 |www.nature.com/nature (pdf)
Required reading
Huaiyang Zhou & Henry J. B. Dick: Thin crust as evidence for depleted mantle supporting the Marion Rise, Nature 494, 195 - 200 (14 February 2013)
Required reading
Roger Buck's Talk Abstract, Suggested Readings & Presentation
Talk Abstract (pdf)
Links Between Magma Supply Axial Relief and Faulting at Mid-ocean Ridges
Roger Buck
Columbia University
https://youtu.be/DY18Jp73JB0
Buck, W. R., P. Einarsson and B. Brandsdottir (2006) Tectonic stress and magma chamber size as controls on dike propagation: Constraints from the 1974-1989 Krafla rifting Episode, J. Geophys. Res. 111; B12, B12404.
Required reading for students
Ito, G, and M. D. Behn (2008) Magmatic and tectonic extension at mid-ocean ridges: 2. Origin of axial morphology, G cubed , 9, doi:10.1029/2008GC001970
Required reading for students
Taras Gerya's Talk Abstract, Suggested Readings & Presentation
Talk Summary (pdf)
Origin and Evolution of Oceanic Ridge-Transform Patterns and Triple Junctions: a numerical modeling prospective
PowerPoint Presentation (ppt)
https://youtu.be/sVEidKypW1w
Gerya, T.V. (2013) Three-dimensional thermomechanical modeling of oceanic spreading initiation and evolution, Phys. Earth Planet , Interiors 214, 35 - 52.
Required reading for students
Gerya, T. (2010) Dynamical instability produces transform faults at mid-ocean ridges, Science , 329, 1047-1050.
Required reading for students
Puthe, C., Gerya, T.V. (2013) Dependence of mid-ocean ridge morphology on spreading rate in numerical 3-D models, Gondwana Research , 25, 270 - 283.
Additional resource reading
Suzanne Carbotte's Talk Abstract, Suggested Readings & Presentation
Talk Summary (pdf)
Seismic Imaging of the Erupting East Pacific Rise at 9°50’N: Insights into the architecture of mid-ocean ridge magmatic systems and eruption dynamics
Suzanne Carbotte
PowerPoint Presentation
Seismic imaging of the recently erupting East Pacific Rise 9°50’N: insights into the architecture of mid-ocean ridge magmatic systems and eruption dynamics
- Suzanne Carbotte1, Milena Marjanovic1, Shuoshuo Han1, Pablo Canales2, Helene Carton1, John Mutter1, Mladen Nedimovic1, Omid Aghei3, Min Xu2, Bridgit Boulahanis1, 1LDEO, 2WHOI, Dalhousie3
https://youtu.be/n91KQlJ-GP0 Suzanne M. Carbotte et al.: Fine-scale segmentation of the crustal magma reservoir beneath the East Pacific Rise, Nature Geoscience Letters , and supplementary information, Published online: 15 Sept. 2013
Required reading for students
Milena Marjanovic et al.: A multi-sill magma plumbing system beneath the axis of the East Pacific Rise, Nature Geoscience Letters , published online: 19 Oct. 2014
Required reading for students
Vera Schlindwein's Talk Abstract, Suggested Readings & Presentation
Talk Summary (pdf)
Deformation Modes of Magmatic and Amagmatic Ocean Lithosphere at Ultraslow Spreading Ridges
PowerPoint Presentation
Deformation modes of magmatic and amagmatic ocean lithosphere at ultraslow spreading ridges
https://youtu.be/zgCUxAA5iQU
Schlindwein, V., and F. Schmid (2016), Mid-ocean-ridge seismicity reveals extreme types of ocean lithosphere, Nature , 535 (7615), 276-279.
Required reading for students
Schlindwein, V. (2012), Teleseismic earthquake swarms at ultraslow spreading ridges: indicator for dyke intrusions?, Geophys J Int , 190(1), 442-456.
Required reading
Escartin, J., D. K. Smith, J. Cann, H. Schouten, C. H. Langmuir, and S. Escrig (2008), Central role of detachment faults in accretion of slow-spreading oceanic lithosphere, Nature , 455 (7214), 790-794.
Aditional resource reading
Mathilde Cannat's Talk Abstract, Suggested Readings & Presentation
Talk Abstract
"Generation of the Oceanic Lithosphere at a Melt-Starved and Ultraslow Mid-Ocean Ridge"
Mathilde Cannat
https://youtu.be/Cy8d2bQOaLU
Sauter, D., Cannat, M., Roumejon, S., Andreani, M., Birot, D., Bronner, A., Brunelli, D., Carlut, J., Delacour, A., Guyader, V., MacLeod, C.J., Manatschal, G., Mendel, V., Menez, B., et al., 2013, Continuous exhumation of mantle-derived rocks at the Southwest Indian Ridge for 11 million years: Nature Geoscience, v. 6, no. 4, p. 314 -320, doi: 10.1038/ngeo1771.
Required reading for students
Cannat, M., Sauter, D., Mendel, V., Ruellan, E., Okino, K., Escartin, J., Combier, V., and Baala, M., 2006, Modes of seafloor generation at a melt-poor ultraslow-spreading ridge: GEOLOGY, v. 34, no. 7, p. 605.
Required reading for students
Charles Langmuir's Talk Abstract, Suggested Readings & Presentation
Talk Abstract
"Low Degree Melts and Their Significance for MORB, FOZO and OIB"
PowerPoint Presentaion
MORB- What controls their major and trace element compositions, and what does that tell us about the mantle? Video of Talk (link below)
VIDEO
Kathleen E. Donnelly et al., Origin of enriched ocean ridge basalts and implications for mantle dynamics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 226 (2004), pages 344-366
* Required reading for students
Allison Gale et al., The Global Systematics of Ocean Ridge Basalts and their Origin, Journal of Petrology , Volume 55, Number 6, Pages 1051-1082 , 2014
* Required reading for students
Allison Gale et al., Constraints on melting processes and plume-ridge interaction from comprehensive study of the FAMOUS and North Famous segments, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 365 (2013), pages 209-220
Additional reading
Muriel Laubier et al., Melting and Crustal Processes at the FAMOUS Segment (Mid-Atlantic Ridge): New Insights from Olivine-hosted Melt Inclusions from Multiple Samples, Journal of Petrology (2012) 53 (4): 665-698.
Addtional reading
Colleen A. Dalton et al., Geophysical and Geochemical Evidence for Deep Temperature Variations Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges, Science , 344, 80 (2014)
Additional reading