Reference Materials and Reading Assignments

Reading Assignments:

January 6, 1998

• First 4 chapters of The Mid-Oceanic Ridges
  
  
• Bill's recommended papers:
  
  
• Turcotte, D.L., Phipps Morgan, J., The Physics of Magma Migration and
  Mantle Flow beneath a Mid-Ocean Ridge. Mantle flow and Melt Migration
  at Mid Ocean Ridges. Geophysical Monograph 71, AGU 1992
   
• Sparks, D.W., Parmentier, E.M., The Generation and Migration of Partial
  Melt beneath Oceanic Spreading Centers. Magmatic Systems. Ed. P.M. Ryan,
  1992
   
• More general review:
  Forsyth, D.W., Geophysical Constraints on Mantle Flow and Melt
  Generation Beneath Mid-Ocean Ridges. Mantle flow and Melt Migration
  at Mid Ocean Ridges. Geophysical Monograph 71, AGU 1992
  
  
• Rob's recommended papers:

• G. Ceuleneer, A. Nicholas, and F. Boudier, Mantle Flow Patterns at an Oceanic
  Spreading Centre: The Oman Peridotite Record.  Tectonophysics, 151, 1988.
   
• P. Kelemen, G. Hirth, N. Shimizu, M. Spiegelman, and H. Dick, A Review of
  Melt Migration Processes in the Adiabadically Upwelling Mantle benath oceanic
  spreading ridges. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, Ser. A, 1997.
   
• For extra credit and some easier reading:
  Chapters 6 and 7 of Adolph Nicholas' Book: The Mid-Oceanic Ridges.
  

January 13, 1998

•  Andrew's recommended papers:
  
  
• Phipps Morgan, J., A. Harding, J. Orcutt, G. Kent, and Y. J. Chen, An
  observational and theoretical synthesis of magma chamber geometry and crustal
  genesis along a mid-ocean ridge spreading center, in, Magmatic Systems,
  M. P. Ryan, ed., Academic Press, pp 139-178, 1994 (mainly up to page 158)
   
• Sinton, J. M., and R. S. Detrick, Mid-ocean ridge magma chambers, J. Geophys.
  Res., 97, 197-216, 1992.

 

• Brandon's recommended papers:
   
• Good overview of magma chamber models, also mentions seismic velocity structure: 
  Chapter 11 from Nicholas, A., Structures of Ophiolites and Dynamics of Oceanic
  Lithosphere. 1989, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 367 pp.
   
• Two short, more recent articles on magma chambers (although from the same research group):
  
• Nicholas, A., Freydier, Cl., Godard, M., Vauchez, A., 1993,  Magma
  chambers at oceanic ridges: How large? Geology, v. 21, p 53-56.
  
• Boudier, F., Nicholas, A., Ildefonse, B., 1996, Magma chambers in the Oman
  ophiolite:  fed from the top and the bottom. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
  v. 144, p. 239-250.
  
  
• Jennifer's recommended papers:
  
  
• Kelemen, PB, Koga, K, and Shimuzu, S, Geochemistry of gabbro sills in the
  crust/mantle transition zone of the Oman ophiolite: Implications for the origin of
  the oceanic lower crust, EPSL 146, in press.
  
• Kelemen, PB, and Aharonov, E, Periodic formatin of magma fractures and
  generation of layered gabbros in the lower crust beneath oceanic spreading ridges,
  in press?
   
  

January 19-23, 1998

•  Martin's recommended papers:
  
  

• Good overview of hydrothermal circulation:
• Wilcock, W.S.D., Delaney, J.R., 1996, Mid-ocean ridge sulfide deposits:
  Evidence for heat extraction from magma chambers or cracking fronts?,
  Earth and Planetary Science Letters 145 (1996) 49-64
  
  
• Oman Ophiolite evidence:
• Nehlig,P., Juteau,T., 1988, Deep crustal seawater penetration and circulation
  at ocean ridges: evidence from the Oman Ophiolite, Marine Geology,
  84 (1988) 209-228
  
  
• Another REALLY GOOD, but long overview paper about hydrothermal circulation at
  fast and slow spreading ridges (optional --> not copied):
• Alt, J.C., 1995, Subseafloor Processes in Mid-Ocean Ridge Hydrothermal
  Systems, from: Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems: Physical, Chemical, Biological,
  and Geological Interactions, Geophysical Monograph 91, 1995, AGU, p. 85-114