Strain localization on an oceanic detachment fault system, Atlantis Massif, 30°N, Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Strain Localization Along the Atlantis Bank Oceanic Detachment Fault System, Southwest Indian Ridge

Iodp Expedition 305: Ocean Core Complex Formation, Atlantis Massif Site U1309 Summary

SCIENCE SUMMARY Site U1309 (Prospectus Site AMFW-01A) is located on the central dome of Atlantis Massif, 15 km west of the median valley axis of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the seafloor coincides with a corrugated detachment fault surface. Site U1309 comprises eight holes drilled within 2 km of one another and along a spreading-parallel corridor (see Expedition 304 Site U1309 Site Summary). H...

Protracted Construction of Gabbroic Crust At a Slow Spreading Ridge: Constraints from (206)Pb/(238)U Zircon Ages from Atlantis Massif and Iodp Hole U1309D (30 Degrees N, Mar)

T41D-1336.Karson, J. A. (1990), Seafloor spreading on the Mid-AtlanticRidge: Implications for the structure of ophiolites and ocea-nic lithosphere produced in slow-spreading environments, in Ophiolites and Oceanic Crustal Analogues: Proceedings of the Symposium ‘‘Troodos 1987’’, edited by J. Malpas et al.,pp. 125–130, Geol. Surv. Dep., Nicosia, Cyprus.Karson, J. A., G. L. Fr...

Structure of oceanic core complexes: Constraints from seafloor gravity measurements made at the Atlantis Massif

[1] Using the DSV Alvin, the relative seafloor gravimeter ROVDOG was deployed at 18 sites on the Atlantis Massif (located at the ridge-transform intersection of the MidAtlantic Ridge and the Atlantis Transform Fault near 30 N, 42 W). These data along with previously collected shipboard gravity and bathymetry provide constraints on the density structure of this oceanic core complex. A series of ...

Locating the spreading axis along 80 km of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge south of the Atlantis Transform

The zone of active eruptive fissuring (the “spreading axis”) is investigated at an accretionary segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. High-resolution side-scan images are used to produce a detailed geologic map of the median valley floor of Segment 18, located immediately south of the Atlantis Transform (30oN). The spreading axis is defined by distinguishing between primary eruptive vents (seamoun...