V22A:
Crustal Accretion Processes at Intermediate to Fast-Spreading Ridges: New Advances from Seafloor Geology, Geophysical Experiments, and Ocean Drilling I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Suzanne M Carbotte, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States and Benoit Ildefonse, Université Montpellier 2 & CNRS, Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Primary Conveners:  Kathryn M Gillis, Univ Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Co-conveners:  Michael R Perfit, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, Suzanne M Carbotte, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States and Benoit Ildefonse, Université Montpellier 2 & CNRS, Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier, France
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael R Perfit, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Crustal Thickness and Moho Character of the Fast-Spreading East Pacific Rise Between 9º37.5’N and 9º57’N From Poststack and Prestack Time Migrated 3D MCS data
Mladen R Nedimovic, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, Omid Aghaei, Shell Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada, Suzanne M Carbotte, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, Helene Delphine Carton, LDEO, Palisades, NY, United States and Juan Pablo Canales, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States
10:35 AM
 
Axial Magma System Geometry beneath a Fast-Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridge: Insight from Three-Dimensional Seismic Reflection Imaging on the East Pacific Rise 9º42’ to 9º57’N
Helene Delphine Carton, LDEO, Palisades, NY, United States, Suzanne M Carbotte, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, John C Mutter, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Juan Pablo Canales, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Mladen R Nedimovic, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
10:50 AM
 
11:05 AM
 
Re-evaluating across-axis geochemical variations at the East Pacific Rise and Juan de Fuca Ridge: on- and off-axis melt delivery
Rachel L Walters and Michael R Perfit, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
11:20 AM
 
The origin of layered gabbros from the mid lower ocean crust, Hess Deep, East Pacific Rise
Michael J Cheadle1, Tyler C Brown1, Georges Ceuleneer2 and Romain Meyer3, (1)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (3)Centre for Gebiology, Bergen, Norway
11:35 AM
 
Geochemistry of Fast-Spreading Lower Oceanic Crust: Results from Drilling at the Hess Deep Rift (ODP Leg 147 and IODP Expedition 345; East Pacific Rise)
Marguerite Godard, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, Trevor Falloon, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, Kathryn M Gillis, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Norikatsu Akizawa, Kanazawa University, Kanagawa, Japan, Alden de Brito Adriao, UFRGS Federal University of Rio Grande du Sul, Rio Grande, Brazil, Juergen Koepke, Leibniz University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany, Naomi Marks, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, United States, Romain Meyer, Centre for Gebiology, Bergen, Norway, Abhishek Saha, Council of Scientific & industrial Research, New Delhi, India and C-Dieter Garbe-Schoenberg, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
11:50 AM
 
IODP Expedition 345: Characterizing Hydrothermal Alteration of Fast-Spreading EPR Lower Crust using O, Sr and Nd isotopics
Naomi Marks1,2, Kathryn M Gillis3, Rachel E. Lindvall1 and Kerri Schorzman1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)University of California Davis, Earth and Planetary Science, Davis, CA, United States, (3)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
12:05 PM
 
A Dual-Porosity, In Situ Crystallisation Model For Fast-Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridge Magma Chambers Based Upon Direct Observation From Hess Deep
Christopher J MacLeod, Cardiff University, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, CF24, United Kingdom and C. Johan Lissenberg, Cardiff University, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom