12/09/2013 08:00
US/Pacific
AGU Fall Meeting, San francisco 9-13 December, 2013
Abstract Submission Deadline: 6 August, 2013
T026. Oceanic Detachment Faulting and Associated Processes at Mid-Ocean Ridges
Description:
Oceanic detachment faulting accommodates seafloor spreading via large-offset normal faults, exhuming lower crustal and upper mantle lithologies. The exposure of peridotite, gabbro, and fault rocks, as well as the diversity of hydrothermal venting styles associated with detachment faulting, are attracting scientists interested in mid-ocean ridge processes such as mantle melting, crustal accretion, lithospheric thermal evolution, feedbacks between tectonism, magmatism, and hydrothermalism, and chemical fluxes across the seafloor. We welcome contributions from an observational and/or modeling perspective on geological, geophysical, and chemical processes associated with detachment faulting and core complex evolution.
Conveners:
1.Juan Pablo Canales
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
jpcanales@whoi.edu
2.Javier Escartin
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
escartin.javier@gmail.com
3.Andrew McCaig
University of Leeds
a.mccaig@see.leeds.ac.uk
4.Nicholas Hayman
University of Texas
hayman@ig.utexas.edu
