Continuous Mantle Melt Supply Beneath an Overlapping Spreading Center on the East Pacific Rise

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Mar 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001sci...291.1955d&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 291, Issue 5510, pp. 1955-1958 (2001).

Physics

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Tomographic images of upper mantle velocity structure beneath an overlapping spreading center (OSC) on the East Pacific Rise indicate that this ridge axis discontinuity is underlain by a continuous region of low P-wave velocities. The anomalous structure can be explained by an approximately 16-kilometer-wide region of high temperatures and melt fractions of a few percent by volume. Our results show that OSCs are not necessarily associated with a discontinuity in melt supply and that both OSC limbs are supplied with melt from a mantle source located beneath the OSC. We conclude that tectonic segmentation of the ridge by OSCs is not the direct result of magmatic segmentation at mantle depths.

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