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 …

Volcanoes, fluids, and life at mid-ocean ridge spreading centers

DS Kelley, JA Baross, JR Delaney - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The recent recognition of a potentially vast, unexplored hot microbial biosphere
associated with active volcanism along the global mid-ocean ridge network has …

Yttrium and rare earth elements in fluids from various deep-sea hydrothermal systems

E Douville, P Bienvenu, JL Charlou, JP Donval… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 1999 - Elsevier
Rare earth element (REE) and yttrium (Y) concentrations were measured in fluids collected
from deep-sea hydrothermal systems including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR), ie, Menez …

A test of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity

BJ McGill - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
One of the fundamental questions of ecology is what controls biodiversity. Recent theory
suggests that biodiversity is controlled predominantly by neutral drift of species …

Permeability within basaltic oceanic crust

AT Fisher - Reviews of Geophysics, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Water‐rock interactions within the seafloor are responsible for significant energy and solute
fluxes between basaltic oceanic crust and the overlying ocean. Permeability is the primary …

Kinematics and geometry of active detachment faulting beneath the Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse (TAG) hydrothermal field on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

BJ Demartin, RA Sohn, J Pablo Canales… - …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Newly acquired seismic refraction and microearthquake data from the Trans-Atlantic
Geotraverse (TAG) segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 26° N reveal for the first time the …

Characterization of roughness and shear behavior of thermally treated granite fractures

F Meng, J Song, LNY Wong, Z Wang, C Zhang - Engineering Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite a large number of studies examining the effects of high temperature on the physical
and mechanical properties of various rock types, few studies have addressed the effects of …

Discovery of a magma chamber and faults beneath a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal field

SC Singh, WC Crawford, H Carton, T Seher, V Combier… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Crust at slow-spreading ridges is formed by a combination of magmatic and tectonic
processes, with magmatic accretion possibly involving short-lived crustal magma chambers …

Three‐dimensional seismic structure and physical properties of the crust and shallow mantle beneath the East Pacific Rise at 9° 30'N

RA Dunn, DR Toomey… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
The seismic structure of the crust and shallow mantle beneath the East Pacific Rise near 9°
3O′ N is imaged by inverting P wave travel time data. Our tomographic results constrain for …

Magmatic events can produce rapid changes in hydrothermal vent chemistry

MD Lilley, DA Butterfield, JE Lupton, EJ Olson - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
The Endeavour segment of the Juan de Fuca ridge is host to one of the most vigorous
hydrothermal areas found on the global mid-ocean-ridge system, with five separate vent …