Planned geological investigations of the Europa Clipper Mission

IJ Daubar, AG Hayes, GC Collins, KL Craft… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Geological investigations planned for the Europa Clipper mission will examine the
formation, evolution, and expression of geomorphic structures found on the surface …

Polyphase tectono-magmatic evolution during mantle exhumation in an ultra-distal, magma-poor rift domain: example of the fossil Platta ophiolite, SE Switzerland

ME Epin, G Manatschal, M Amman, C Ribes… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Despite the fact that many studies have investigated mantle exhumation at ultra-slow-
spreading ridges and magma-poor rifted margins, there are still numerous questions …

Controls on the magmatic fraction of extension at mid-ocean ridges

JA Olive, P Dublanchet - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
The fraction M of plate separation accommodated by magma emplacement at mid-ocean
ridges has been recognized as the main control on seafloor spreading modes, yet the …

How transform fault shear influences where detachment faults form near mid-ocean ridges

JC Schierjott, G Ito, MD Behn, X Tian, T Morrow… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Oceanic detachment faults represent an end-member form of seafloor creation, associated
with relatively weak magmatism at slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges. We use 3-D numerical …

Kinematics of footwall exhumation at oceanic detachment faults: Solid‐block rotation and apparent unbending

D Sandiford, S Brune, A Glerum… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Seafloor spreading at slow rates can be accommodated on large‐offset oceanic detachment
faults (ODFs), that exhume lower crustal and mantle rocks in footwall domes termed oceanic …

Mantle exhumation at magma-poor rifted margins controlled by frictional shear zones

T Theunissen, RS Huismans - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
The transition zone from continental crust to the mature mid-ocean ridge spreading center of
the Iberia-Newfoundland magma-poor rifted margins is mostly composed of exhumed …

Sulfide metallogenic model for the ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge

C Tao, Z Guo, J Liang, T Ding, W Yang, S Liao… - Science China Earth …, 2023 - Springer
Polymetallic sulfides present in mid-ocean ridges (MORs) have become important strategic
resources for humans, and a scientific metallogenic model is necessary for the investigation …

Magmatism controls global oceanic transform fault topography

X Tian, MD Behn, G Ito, JC Schierjott, BJP Kaus… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Oceanic transform faults play an essential role in plate tectonics. Yet to date, there is no
unifying explanation for the global trend in broad-scale transform fault topography, ranging …

A 3‐D Seismic Tomographic Study of Spreading Structures and Smooth Seafloor Generated by Detachment Faulting—The Ultra‐Slow Spreading Southwest Indian …

AH Robinson, L Watremez, S Leroy… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
At ultra‐slow spreading ridges, with full spreading rates less than∼ 20 mm/yr, spreading is
accommodated both by highly spatially and temporally segmented magmatism, and tectonic …

Microstructures reveal multistage melt present strain localisation in mid-ocean gabbros

RL Gardner, S Piazolo, NR Daczko, P Trimby - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, we examine the tectono-metamorphic evolution of gabbroic rocks of the Atlantis
Bank oceanic core complex, South West Indian Ridge, focusing on multistage strain …