Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Aug 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986e%26psl..79...75s&link_type=abstract
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 79, Issue 1-2, p. 75-92.
Mathematics
Logic
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Scientific paper
Oxygen isotopic, mineralogical and fluid inclusion data are presented for fresh and hydrothermally altered gabbroic rocks from the failed Mathematician Ridge. The Mathematician Ridge, though initially a fast-spreading ridge presently has a deep central rift valley more typical of slow-spreading rifts. The inner rift walls expose rare plutonic rocks uncomplicated by proximity to deep large-offset fracture zones. Undeformed Mathematician Ridge gabbros preserve most of the original texture and phase compositions and have been only slightly mineralogically or isotopically modified by post-crystallization hydrothermal alteration. Metagabbros have been subjected to a pervasive ductile deformation and recrystallization to foliated rocks composed of aluminous amphibole, low-calcium plagioclase and ilmenite. Oxygen isotope and phase chemical data suggest this event began at temperatures of up to 700°C, water-rock ratios of less than one, and produced modified seawater fluids with isotopic compositions of 3.5-6.0‰. The amphibolites are cross-cut by multiple generation quartz-epidote veins forming a network. Replacement of the amphibole-grade mineralogies by greenschist-grade mineralogies, fluid oxygen isotopic compositions of 2-4‰, and a two-phase separation in the fluid captured in conjugate vapor-fluid inclusions are all associated with the formation of this network. Fluid inclusion data for the quartz indicate initial temperatures of over 500°C. These samples may represent rocks from the 1-2 km deep plumbing system of black-smoker-type venting.
Stakes Debra
Vanko David A.
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