Richard P. Von Herzen

TL;DR: It is suggested that two-thirds of the heat lost from new oceanic lithosphere at the Gal�pagos Rift in the first million years may be vented from thermal springs, predominantly along the axial ridge within the rift valley.

TL;DR: A review of the development of seafloor hydrothermal systems from the indirect evidence provided by conductive heat flow anomalies to the discovery of ≈ 350°C black smoker vents on the East Pacific Rise at 21°N is presented in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrated geophysical, geochemical and biological data to unravel the origin and evolution of an unusual rift lake, Lake Kivu, and found that sharp boundaries in the vertical temperature and salinity structure of the water across the lake can best be explained as separate convecting layers.

TL;DR: In this article, the seafloor bathymetric chart of the Central Bransfield basin shows submarine volcanoes and striking, line-and-line-ated basalt features that dredging indicated were vesicular basalt, which strongly supports active extension in accretionary wedge-derived continental crust.

TL;DR: The average heat loss from the Earth's interior is calculated from heat-flow values and tectonic models of sea-floor spreading as mentioned in this paper, and the value of 10.2 × 1012 cal/s is about 32 percent larger than previous estimates, mainly due to the previously ignored contribution from the cooling lithosphere.