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Robert D. Ballard
Researcher at University of Rhode Island
Publications - 96
Citations - 6193
Robert D. Ballard is an academic researcher from University of Rhode Island. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rift & Hydrothermal vent. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 96 publications receiving 5977 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert D. Ballard include Dalhousie University & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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Submarine Thermal Springs on the Galápagos Rift
John B. Corliss,Jack Dymond,Louis I. Gordon,John M. Edmond,Richard P. Von Herzen,Robert D. Ballard,Kenneth Green,David L. Williams,Arnold E. Bainbridge,Kathy Crane,Tjeerd H. van Andel +10 more
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.
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East Pacific Rise: Hot Springs and Geophysical Experiments
Fred N. Spiess,Ken C. Macdonald,Tanya Atwater,Robert D. Ballard,A. Carranza,D. Cordoba,C. Cox,V. M. Diaz Garcia,J. Francheteau,José Manuel Crespo Guerrero,James W. Hawkins,Rachel M. Haymon,Robert R. Hessler,Tierre Juteau,Miriam Kastner,Roger L. Larson,Bruce P. Luyendyk,J. D. Macdougall,Stanley L. Miller,William R. Normark,John A. Orcutt,Claude Rangin +21 more
TL;DR: High-resolution determinations of crustal properties along the spreading center were made to gain knowledge of the source of new oceanic crust and marine magnetic anomalies, the nature of the axial magma chamber, and the depth of hydrothermal circulation.
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Morphology and tectonics of the inner rift valley at lat 36°50′N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
TL;DR: A segment of the inner rift valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge was investigated in detail from the American submersible Alvin this article, where 15 traverses were made across the floor and up the first major fault scarps in the valley walls.
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Hydrothermal heat flux of the “black smoker” vents on the East Pacific Rise
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors showed that the heat loss associated with a single vent of this type is three to six times the total theoretical heat loss for a 1-km segment of ridge out to 1 m.y.
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The East Pacific Rise near 21°N, 13°N and 20°S: inferences for along-strike variability of axial processes of the Mid-Ocean Ridge
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data obtained along various segments of the mid-Ocean Ridge (MOR) to construct an idealized model for crustal accretion, which aims to predict the topographic, volcanic, tectonic, and hydrothermal characteristics of any given spreading segment of the MOR as a function of distance away from the bounding transform faults.