The mid-ocean ridge axial valley as a steady-state neck

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Nov 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984e%26psl..71..141e&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 71, Issue 1, p. 141-146.

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In this paper the mid-ocean ridge axial valley is modelled as a steady-state lithospheric neck in which lithospheric stretching balances lithospheric accretion. Conversely, the axial high is a steady-state lithospheric bulge. The lithosphere is modelled as a thin plate with a Newtonian rheology. It is shown that an axial valley will occur if the rate of viscosity increase away from the ridge axis is faster than the rate at which accretion decreases. An axial high will occur if the opposite condition holds. This is consistent with the observation that axial valleys occur at low spreading rates and axial highs at high spreading rates. By fitting our model to profiles across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise and assuming the lithospheric thickness at the ridge axis to be 5 km, we find accretion widths of 6-8 km. We find the width over which there is a significant increase in lithospheric viscosity to be also 6-8 km.

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