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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 38, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047206
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- NSF [OCE 09-37277]
- Division Of Ocean Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [0937277] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Throughout the global mid-ocean ridge system, transform faults offset spreading centers. Conductive cooling may be more efficient beneath transform faults, producing a thickened lithosphere that directs melt away from the transform. However, recent observations of thickened crust along transform faults at fast ridges suggest melt redistribution toward transforms, intra-crustal melt production, or efficient extraction of melt. We apply a 3-D model of melt migration and extraction along an oceanic transform domain bounded by ridge segments. Melt is assumed to travel vertically before collecting and migrating beneath a low-permeability boundary inclined towards the ridge axis. A melt extraction zone, which may be geologically interpreted as the presence of faults and/or dikes leading to rapid lateral and vertical melt migration toward plate boundaries, affects the pattern of crustal accretion at segmented ridges. First, we examine a generic ridge-transform-ridge geometry and then a model that represents the Siqueiros transform on the East Pacific Rise. On the basis of crustal thickness variations within the intra-transform spreading centers along the fast-slipping Siqueiros fault, we constrain the presence of a melt extraction zone within 10 km of the transform zone. Citation: Hebert, L. B., and L. G. J. Montesi (2011), Melt extraction pathways at segmented oceanic ridges: Application to the East Pacific Rise at the Siqueiros transform, Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, L11306, doi: 10.1029/2011GL047206.
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