Active Long-Lived Faults Emerging Along Slow-Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridges

Active Long-Lived Faults Emerging Along Slow-Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridges

In the classic mid-ocean ridge model, new seafloor is generated through a combination of magmatic diking feeding lava flows at the spreading axis, and the formation of short-offset, high-angle normal faults that dip toward the axis. These processes lead to the formation of a layered magmatic crust a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Deborah K. Smith, Javier Escartín, Hans Schouten, Johnson R. Cann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2012-03-01
Series:Oceanography
Subjects:
Ridge 2000
mid-ocean ridges
spreading centers
ocean crust model
Mid-Atlatntic Ridge
detachment fault
seafloor formation
Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/25-1_smith.pdf

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