Chairs: Suzanne M Carbotte, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States and Kathryn M Gillis, Univ Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Primary Conveners: Kathryn M Gillis, Univ Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Co-conveners: Suzanne M Carbotte, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, Benoit Ildefonse, CNRS, Montpellier, France and Michael R Perfit, Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Kathryn M Gillis, Univ Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Insights into Oceanic Crust Accretion from a Comparison of Rock Magnetic and Silicate Fabrics from Lower Crustal Gabbros from Hess Deep Rift
Andrew J Horst, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, United States, Antony Morris, Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Sarah A Friedman, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Department of Geology, Carbondale, IL, United States and Michael J Cheadle, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Towards Solving the Conundrum of Fast-Spread Ocean Crust Formation: Insights from Textural Analysis of Gabbroic Rocks from Pito Deep and Hess Deep, East Pacific Rise
Tyler C Brown1, Michael J Cheadle1, Barbara E John1, Laurence A Coogan2, Jeffrey S Gee3, Jeffrey Alan Karson4, Romain Meyer5, Georges Ceuleneer6 and Susan Swapp1, (1)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Univ California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, (5)Centre for Gebiology, Bergen, Norway, (6)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France
Refining the Subseafloor Circulation Model of the Middle Valley Hydrothermal System Using Fluid Geochemistry
Katherine E Inderbitzen, University of Alaska School of Fisheries & Ocean Science, Marina, CA, United States, Charles Geoffrey Wheat, NURP/ Univ Alaska, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Paul A Baker, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and Andrew T Fisher, UC Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Laser ablation MC-ICP-MS U/Pb geochronology of ocean basement calcium carbonate veins
Michelle Harris1, Rosalind Mary Coggon2, Damon A H Teagle1, Nick M W Roberts3 and Randall Richardson Parrish4, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (3)NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Keyworth, NG12, United Kingdom, (4)NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory, Keyworth, United Kingdom
Magma Dynamics at Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge, from Seafloor Deformation Data
Elisa Baumgardt, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, United States, Scott L Nooner, UNC Wilmington, Dept of Geography and Geology, Wilmington, NC, United States and William Chadwick, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Length Scales of Magmatic Segments at Intermediate and Fast Spreading Ridges
Bridgit Boulahanis, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Suzanne M Carbotte, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, Emily M Klein, Duke University, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Durham, NC, United States, Deborah K Smith, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Arlington, VA, United States and Mathilde Cannat, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
The Complex History of Alarcon Rise Mid-Ocean Ridge Rhyolite Revealed through Mineral Chemistry
Brian M Dreyer, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, Ryan A Portner, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, David A Clague, Monterey Bay Aquarium Res Inst, Moss Landing, CA, United States, Nathan R Daczko, Macquarie University, GEMOC and CCFS, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Sydney, Australia, Paterno Castillo, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States and Ilya N Bindeman, Univ of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
Geochemistry and petrology of andesites from the north rift zone of Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge
Iliya N Smithka1, Michael R Perfit1, David A Clague2 and V. Dorsey Wanless3, (1)University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Watsonville, CA, United States, (3)Boise State University, Dept. of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
Compressional and Shear Wave Structure of the Upper Crust Beneath the Endeavour Segment, Juan De Fuca Ridge
Eunyoung Kim1, Douglas R Toomey2, Emilie E E Hooft2, William S D Wilcock3, Robert T Weekly4, Sang-Mook Lee1 and Younghee Kim1, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, (2)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States
Crustal Thickness and Lower Crustal Velocity Structure Beneath the Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge
Ryley Hill1, Dax Christian Soule2, William S D Wilcock3, Douglas R Toomey4, Emilie E E Hooft4 and Robert T Weekly5, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (5)Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Data Management Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Advanced Seismic Studies of the Endeavour Ridge: Understanding the Interplay among Magmatic, Hydrothermal, and Tectonic Processes at Mid-Ocean Ridges
Gillean M Arnoux1, Brandon Paul VanderBeek1, Joanna V Morgan2, Emilie E E Hooft1, Douglas R Toomey1, William S D Wilcock3 and Michael Warner4, (1)University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States, (2)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Mantle-crust differentiation of chalcophile elements in the oceanic lithosphere
Jakub Ciążela1, Henry J Dick2, Juergen Koepke1, Thomas Kuhn3, Andrzej Muszynski4 and Marta Kubiak5, (1)Leibniz University of Hannover, Institut für Mineralogie, Hannover, Germany, (2)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Bundesanstalt fuer Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, Hannover, Germany, (4)Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, (5)Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland