Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges (eBook)

Peter Arnold Rona was an American oceanographer. He was also a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University. Colin W. Devey is the editor of Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges, published by Wiley.

Preface
Peter A. Rona, Colin W. Devey, Jérôme Dyment, andBramley J. Murton vii

Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading OceanRidges: Introduction
Peter A. Rona, Colin W. Devey, Jérôme Dyment, andBramley J. Murton 1

Emerging Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow SpreadingOcean Ridges
Peter A. Rona 5

Hydrothermal Circulation at Slow Spreading Ridges: Analysis ofHeat Sources and Heat Transfer Processes
Robert P. Lowell 11

Chemical Signatures From Hydrothermal Venting on Slow SpreadingRidges
Henrietta N. Edmonds 27

The Magnetic Signature of Hydrothermal Systems in Slow SpreadingEnvironments
Maurice A. Tivey and Jérôme Dyment 43

Hydrothermal Activity at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridges
Rolf B. Pedersen, Ingunn H. Thorseth, Tor Eivind Nygård,Marvin D. Lilley, and Deborah S. Kelley 67

Implications of the Iceland Deep Drilling Project for ImprovingUnderstanding of Hydrothermal Processes at Slow Spreading Mid-OceanRidges
Wilfred A. Elders and Gudmundur ÓmarFridleifsson 91

Crustal Structure, Magma Chamber, and Faulting Beneath the LuckyStrike Hydrothermal Vent Field
Wayne C. Crawford, Satish C. Singh, Tim Seher, Violaine Combier,Doga Dusunur, and Mathilde Cannat 113

The Relationships Between Volcanism, Tectonism, and HydrothermalActivity on the Southern Equatorial Mid-Atlantic Ridge
C. W. Devey, C. R. German, K. M. Haase, K. S. Lackschewitz, B.Melchert, and D. P. Connelly 133

The Ultraslow Spreading Southwest Indian Ridge
Daniel Sauter and Mathilde Cannat 153

Deformation and Alteration Associated With Oceanic andContinental Detachment Fault Systems: Are They Similar?
Barbara E. John and Michael J. Cheadle 175

Detachment Fault Control on Hydrothermal Circulation Systems:Interpreting the Subsurface Beneath the TAG Hydrothermal FieldUsing the Isotopic and Geological Evolution of Oceanic CoreComplexes in the Atlantic
Andrew M. McCaig, Adélie Delacour, Anthony E. Fallick,Teddy Castelain, and Gretchen L. Früh-Green 207

Serpentinization and Associated Hydrogen and Methane Fluxes atSlow Spreading Ridges
Mathilde Cannat, Fabrice Fontaine, and Javier Escartín241

High Production and Fluxes of H2 and CH4 and Evidence of AbioticHydrocarbon Synthesis by Serpentinization in Ultramafic-HostedHydrothermal Systems on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Jean Luc Charlou, Jean Pierre Donval, Cécile Konn,Hélène Ondréas, Yves Fouquet, PhilippeJean-Baptiste, and Elise Fourré 265

Phase Equilibria Controls on the Chemistry of Vent Fluids FromHydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ridges: Reactivity ofPlagioclase and Olivine Solid Solutions and the pH-SilicaConnection
W. E. Seyfried Jr., Nicholas Pester, and Qi Fu 297

Geodiversity of Hydrothermal Processes Along the Mid-AtlanticRidge and Ultramafic-Hosted Mineralization: A New Type of OceanicCu-Zn-Co-Au Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposit
Yves Fouquet, Pierre Cambon, Joël Etoubleau, Jean LucCharlou, Hélène Ondréas, Fernando J. A. S. Barriga,Georgy Cherkashov, Tatiana Semkova, Irina Poroshina, M. Bohn, JeanPierre Donval, Katell Henry, Pamela Murphy, and Olivier Rouxel321

Hydrothermal Systems: A Decade of Discovery in Slow SpreadingEnvironments
Deborah S. Kelley and Timothy M. Shank 369

Chemosynthetic Communities and Biogeochemical Energy PathwaysAlong the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: The Case of BathymodiolusAzoricus
N. Le Bris and S. Duperron 409

Index 431