Mid-Ocean Ridges : Dynamics of Processes Associated with the Creation of New Oceanic Crust (Hardcover)

Preface J. R. Cann, H. Elderfield and A. Laughton; 1. Sensitivity of teleseismic body waves to mineral texture and melt in the mantle beneath a mid-ocean ridge Donna K. Blackman and J.-Michael Kendall; 2. Evidence for accumulated melt beneath the slow-spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge M. C. Sinha, D. A. Navin, L. M. Mac Gregor, S. Constable, C. Peirce, A. White, G. Heinson and M. A. Inglis; 3. An analysis of variations in isentropic melt productivity P. D. Asimow, M. M. Hirschmann and E. M. Stolper; 4. A review of melt migration processes in the adiabatically upwelling mantle beneath oceanic spreading ridges P. B. Kelemen, G. Hirth, N. Shimizu, M. Spiegelman and H. J. B. Dick; 5. Rift-plume interaction in the North Atlantic R. S. White; 6. The ultrafast East Pacific Rise: instability of the plate boundary and implications for accretionary processes Marie-Helene Cormier; 7. Seafloor eruptions and evolution of hydrothermal fluid chemistry D. A. Butterfield, I. R. Jonasson, G. J. Massoth, R. A. Feely, K. K. Rose, R. E. Embley, J. F. Holden, R. E. McDuff, M. D. Lilley and J. R. Delaney; 8. Controls on the physics and chemistry of seafloor hydrothermal circulation Adam Schultz and Henry Elderfield; 9. Where are the large hydrothermal sulphide deposits in the oceans? Y. Fouquet; 10. Thermocline penetration by buoyant plumes Kevin Speer; 11. Crustal accretion and the hot vent ecosystem S. Kim Juniper and Verena Tunnicliffe; 12. Biocatalytic transformations of hydrothermal fluids Holger W. Jannasch; 13. Sea water entrainment and fluid evolution within the TAG Hydrothermal Mound: evidence from analyses of anhydrite R. A. Mills and M. K. Tivey.