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Cooling Rates And The Depth Of Detachment Faulting At Oceanic Core Complexes: Evidence From Zircon Pb/U And (U-Th)/He Ages, C. B. Grimes, Michael Cheadle, Barbara John, P. W. Reiners, J. L. Wooden
Cooling Rates And The Depth Of Detachment Faulting At Oceanic Core Complexes: Evidence From Zircon Pb/U And (U-Th)/He Ages, C. B. Grimes, Michael Cheadle, Barbara John, P. W. Reiners, J. L. Wooden
Barbara John
Oceanic detachment faulting represents a distinct mode of seafloor spreading at slow spreading mid-ocean ridges, but many questions persist about the thermal evolution and depth of faulting. We present new Pb/U and (U-Th)/He zircon ages and combine them with magnetic anomaly ages to define the cooling histories of gabbroic crust exposed by oceanic detachment faults at three sites along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) holes 1270D and 1275D near the 15 degrees 20'N Transform, and Atlantis Massif at 30 degrees N). Closure temperatures for the Pb/U (similar to 800 degrees C-850 degrees C) and (U-Th)/He (similar to 210 …
Strain Localization Along The Atlantis Bank Oceanic Detachment Fault System, Southwest Indian Ridge, E. A. Miranda, Barbara John
Strain Localization Along The Atlantis Bank Oceanic Detachment Fault System, Southwest Indian Ridge, E. A. Miranda, Barbara John
Barbara John
Microstructural observations and mineral thermometry from in situ samples collected from the Atlantis Bank oceanic core complex (SW Indian Ridge) indicate that detachment faulting was initiated under hypersolidus conditions in the ductile regime and continued through subgreenschist temperatures through the ductile, semibrittle, and brittle regimes as strain localized along the exposed, now subhorizontal fault surface. Ductile, semibrittle, and brittle fabrics are developed within dominantly gabbroic rocks. Footwall rocks exhibit crystal plastic fabrics distributed over a structural thickness up to 400 m below the denuded fault surface exposed at the seafloor, whereas semibrittle and brittle fabrics are concentrated in the 80 …