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  • 1
    ISSN: 1573-0581
    Keywords: Mid-Ocean Ridge ; seismicity ; lava flow ; tectonics ; North Atlantic
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geosciences , Physics
    Notes: Abstract On 21 May 1989, a major earthquake swarm on the Reykjanes Ridge at59°44′ N, 29°32′ W at a water depth of about 1000 m andabout 500 km southwest of Iceland was detected on both the WorldwideStandard Seismic Network (WWSSN) and Icelandic seismic networks. As part ofa multi-institutional response to this swarm, the Naval ResearchLaboratory arranged for a P3 Orion Aircraft to deploy sonobuoys and AXBTs inthe immediate vicinity of the swarm activity. The detection of the swarmmotivated a survey of the region in 1990, using the towed SeaMARC IIside-looking sonar system. In 1990–1991 the Russian ShirshovInstitute of Oceanology offered the use of its MIR deep-divingsubmersibles to investigate the rise axis for recent volcanism. During 1992,a scientific team comprised of five US and ten Russian scientists mobilizedthe twin, deep diving Russian submersibles to study the spreading axis ofthe Reykjanes Ridge. The resulting data analyses allows us to conclude thatthe 1989 seismic swarm event occurred adjacent to and east of the largeaxial high in the center of our survey area. The length, width and depthrange of the earthquakes were very similar to major seismic swarm eventsconfined to fissure systems in the Krafla region of Iceland. It is likelythat the earthquake swarm was located on a fresh, well-defined systemof fissures and faults extending south of the northernmost axial highstudied. The earthquake swarm was probably associated with an emanation oflava creating a region of high backscatter, located just to the east of thecentral axial high. In addition, the region of high-backscatterremains unsampled because it lay underneath the nadir of the processedSeaMARC tracks used to plan the submersible survey. However many sampleswere taken and structural studies of the evolving Reykjanes Ridge werecarried out.
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    GSA, Geological Society of America
    In:  Geology, 24 (1). p. 71.
    Publication Date: 2017-07-03
    Description: One of the most puzzling characteristics of sea-floor morphology is the occurrence of anomalously shallow, fracture-zone–parallel, oceanic transverse ridges. A model is proposed for the formation of transverse ridges near lat 21° and 24°N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in which the differential responses of large-offset and small-offset fracture zones to recent changes in spreading direction result in the generation of normal faults that coincide with the off-axis traces of fracture zones. Numerical models of the flexural response of the lithosphere to normal faulting suggest that modest amounts of extension (〈5 km) along low-angle faults (〈45°) are responsible for the transverse ridges.
    Type: Article , PeerReviewed
    Format: text
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2023-05-12
    Keywords: Area/locality; Conductivity, average; Depth, bottom/max; ELEVATION; Heat flow; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Method comment; Number; Number of temperature data; Sample, optional label/labor no; Temperature gradient
    Type: Dataset
    Format: text/tab-separated-values, 705 data points
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    Universitätsverlag Göttingen
    Publication Date: 2021-03-29
    Description: Gruppen von parallel einfallenden Abschiebungen treten in der Natur sehr häufig und in unterschiedlichsten Dimensionen auf. Existierende, überwiegend experimentelle Arbeiten führen einheitliches Einfallen auf laterale Festigkeitsschwankungen oder, vor allem, auf horizontale Scherspannungen zurück (e.g. Brun et al. 1994, Behn et al. 2002). Einheitliche horizontale Scherspannungen im großen Maßstab werden mit einer konsistenten Fließrichtung in der mittleren und/oder unteren Kruste erklärt. Beobachtungen in einigen der bedeutensten Rift-Systeme lassen jedoch beide Erklärungen als zentrale Ursache unwahrscheinlich erscheinen. In der Basin-and-Range-Provinz in den westlichen Vereinigten Staaten ändert sich die Einfallrichtung von parallelen Abschiebungen im Streichen der Störungen, so dass strukturelle Domänen mit intern einheitlicher Einfallrichtung entstehen, die von Blattverschiebungen untereinander getrennt werden. Eine solche Geometrie ließe sich nur mit bizarren Fließmustern in der Unterkruste erklären. Wir präsentieren numerische Extensionsexperimente von sprödem Material, das auf einem linear-viskosen Substrat ruht... In unseren Modell sind parallele Abschiebungen nicht, wie bisher angenommen, auf einheitlichen horizontalen Scherstress, sondern auf vertikale Normalspannungen zurückzuführen, d.h. auf den Widerstand, den das viskose Substrat vertikalen Blockbewegungen in der spröden Lage entgegensetzt. Wenn unser Modell richtig ist, würde das für Gebiete wie die Basin-and- Range-Provinz bedeuten, dass die spröde Oberkruste auf einer wenige Kilometer dicken, viskosen mittleren Kruste liegt, die wiederum ein festeres Substrat hat. Die Unterkruste müsste deutlich fester sein als die mittlere Kruste. Es scheint, dass Folgen von parallelen Abschiebungen häufig in dünnen, niedrig viskosen Lagen (etwa Ton oder Salz) wurzeln.
    Description: conference
    Keywords: 551 ; VAE 830 ; VAE 130 ; VAE 120 ; VBE 000 ; Bruchschollenstrukturen {Geologie} ; Geomechanik ; Methodik {Strukturgeologie} ; Modellierung von Prozessen in der Geosphäre ; Bruchscholle ; Abschiebung 〈Geologie〉 ; Geomechanik ; Numerisches Modell
    Language: German
    Type: anthologyArticle , publishedVersion
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