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| Boulart, Cedric; Briais, Anne; Chavagnac, Valerie; Revillon, Sidonie; Ceuleneer, Georges; Donval, Jean-pierre; Guyader, Vivien; Barrere, Fabienne; Ferreira, Nicolas; Hanan, Barry; Hemond, Christophe; Macleod, Sarah; Maia, Marcia; Maillard, Agnes; Merkuryev, Sergey; Park, Sung-hyun; Ruellan, Etienne; Schohn, Alexandre; Watson, Sally; Yang, Yun-seok. |
| Using a combined approach of seafloor mapping, MAPR and CTD survey, we report evidence for active hydrothermal venting along the 130°-140°E section of the poorly-known South-East Indian Ridge (SEIR) from the Australia-Antarctic Discordance (AAD) to the George V Fracture Zone (FZ). Along the latter, we report Eh and CH4 anomalies in the water column above a serpentinite massif, which unambiguously testify for ultramafic-related fluid flow. This is the first time that such circulation is observed on an intermediate-spreading ridge. The ridge axis itself is characterized by numerous off-axis volcanoes, suggesting a high magma supply. The water column survey indicates the presence of at least ten distinct hydrothermal plumes along the axis. The CH4:Mn ratios... |
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Palavras-chave: Hydrothermal plumes; Mid-ocean ridges; South-East Indian Ridge. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00387/49821/50400.pdf |
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| Maia, Marcia; Sichel, Susanna; Briais, Anne; Brunelli, Daniele; Ligi, Marco; Ferreira, Nicolas; Campos, Thomas; Mougel, Berengere; Brehme, Isa; Hemond, Christophe; Motoki, Akihisa; Moura, Denise; Scalabrin, Carla; Pessanha, Ivo; Alves, Eliane; Ayres, Arthur; Oliveira, Pedro. |
| Mantle exhumation at slow-spreading ridges is favoured by extensional tectonics through low-angle detachment faults1, 2, 3, 4, and, along transforms, by transtension due to changes in ridge/transform geometry5, 6. Less common, exhumation by compressive stresses has been proposed for the large-offset transforms of the equatorial Atlantic7, 8. Here we show, using high-resolution bathymetry, seismic and gravity data, that the northern transform fault of the St Paul system has been controlled by compressive deformation since ~10 million years ago. The long-lived transpression resulted from ridge overlap due to the propagation of the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge segment into the transform domain, which induced the migration and segmentation of the transform... |
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| Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00345/45603/49042.pdf |
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| Briais, Anne; Ondreas, Helene; Klingelhoefer, Frauke; Dosso, Laure; Hamelin, Cedric; Guillou, Herve. |
| Non-hot spot, intraplate volcanism is a common feature near the East Pacific Rise or Pacific-Antarctic ridge. Volcanic ridges and seamount chains, tens to hundreds of kilometers long, are asymmetrically distributed about the ridge axis, with most volcanic features occurring on the Pacific plate. Their origins remain controversial. We have analyzed off-axis volcanic ridges near the Pacific-Antarctic ridge from bathymetry, backscatter, gravity, and geochemistry data of the Pacantarctic 2 cruise. K/Ar dating of samples dredged on these structures reveals a contrast of up to 3 Ma between the volcanoes and the underlying crust. The volcanic activity, as suggested by the strong backscatter in sonar images, appears to be limited to areas of seafloor younger than... |
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Palavras-chave: Mid ocean ridges; Off axis volcanism; Mantle convection; Plate kinematics; Transform fault. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/11106/7968.pdf |
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| Gomez, O; Briais, Anne; Sauter, D; Mendel, V. |
| We present the analysis of the deformation in the axial valley of two contrasted regions of the very slow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge based on side-scan sonar images. Our objective is to investigate how the obliquity is accommodated along the system. We show that the robust magmatic segments have axial valleys and major faults subperpendicular to spreading. The other sections show fault populations with various degrees of obliquity, often arranged in left-stepping echelons, accommodating part of the strike-slip deformation. Side-scan sonar reveals the presence of a corrugated surface near 59 degrees E interpreted to be an incipient detachment fault. We show that the large width of the SWIR oblique sections, and the difference in tectonic style between... |
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Palavras-chave: Mid-ocean ridges; Side-scan sonar; Tectonics; Discontinuities. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00234/34567/33236.pdf |
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| Ondreas, Helene; Aslanian, Daniel; Geli, Louis; Olivet, Jean-louis; Briais, Anne. |
| The spreading rate at the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge (PAR) increases rapidly from 54 mm/yr near Pitman Fracture Zone (FZ) up to 76 mm/yr near Udintsev FZ, resulting in three domains of axial morphology: an axial valley south of Pitman FZ, an axial high north of Saint Exupery FZ, and in between, the transitional domain extends over 650 km. It comprises sections of ridge with an axial valley or an axial high and generally displays a very low cross-sectional relief. It is also characterized by two propagating rifts. Two domains of different seafloor roughness appear south of Udintsev FZ: east of 157 degreesW these two domains are separated by a 1000-km V-shaped boundary. West of 157 degreesW, the boundary approximately coincides with Chron 3a or Chron 4. The... |
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Palavras-chave: Spreading; Segmentation; Geomorphology; Seafloor; Ridge. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2001/publication-438.pdf |
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