Javier Escartín

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present sonar images of two ridge-transform intersections on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (near 30° N), which show that both active and fossilized inside-corner highs are capped by planar, dipping surfaces marked by corrugations and striations oriented parallel to the plate spreading direction.

TL;DR: An examination of ∼2,500 km of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between 12.5 and 35° N is presented, which reveals asymmetrical accretion along almost half of the ridge, suggesting that much of the variability in sea-floor morphology, seismicity and basalt chemistry found along slow-spreading ridges can be thus attributed to the frequent involvement of detachment faults in oceanic lithospheric accretion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on extensive off-axis bathymetry, gravity, and magnetic data that provide a 26m.y.d. record of axial tectonic and magmatic processes over a 660km-long and melt-poor portion of the ultralow Southwest Indian Ridge.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors deformed cores of peridotite with ∼10%−15% lizardite and chrysotile serpentine to determine the influence of serpentine content on the strength and the style of deformation.

TL;DR: In this article, deformed rocks sampled from a corrugated detachment fault surface near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (15°45′N) constrain the conditions of deformation and strain localization.