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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Nonprofit•Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States•
About: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a nonprofit organization based out in Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Mantle (geology). The organization has 5685 authors who have published 18396 publications receiving 1202050 citations. The organization is also known as: WHOI.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present numerical models and geological data to show that detachments occur when ~30% to 50% of total extension is accommodated by magmatic accretion and that there is signifi cant magmatism accretion in the fault footwalls.
Abstract: Normal faults are ubiquitous on mid-ocean ridges and are expected to develop increasing offset with reduced spreading rate as the proportion of tectonic extension increases. Numerous long-lived detachment faults that form megamullions with large-scale corrugations have been identifi ed on magma-poor mid-ocean ridges, but recent studies suggest, counterintuitively, that they may be associated with elevated magmatism. We present numerical models and geological data to show that these detachments occur when ~30%‐50% of total extension is accommodated by magmatic accretion and that there is signifi cant magmatic accretion in the fault footwalls. Under these low-melt conditions, magmatism may focus unevenly along the spreading axis to create an irregular brittle-plastic transition where detachments root, thus explaining the origin of the enigmatic corrugations. Morphological and compositional characteristics of the oceanic lithosphere suggested by this study provide important new constraints to assess the distribution of magmatic versus tectonic extension along mid-ocean ridges.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute1, Massachusetts Institute of Technology2, University of California, Santa Cruz3, California State University4, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution5, University of California, San Diego6, University of Tasmania7, University of Alaska Fairbanks8, Oregon State University9, University of Victoria10, University of Tokyo11, University of Liverpool12, Florida State University13, California Institute of Technology14, University of Plymouth15, University of Washington16, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences17
TL;DR: In nearly a dozen open-ocean fertilization experiments conducted by more than 100 researchers from nearly 20 countries, adding iron at the sea surface has led to distinct increases in photosynthesis rates and biomass as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In nearly a dozen open-ocean fertilization experiments conducted by more than 100 researchers from nearly 20 countries, adding iron at the sea surface has led to distinct increases in photosynthesis rates and biomass. These experiments confirmed the hypothesis proposed by the late John Martin [Martin, 1990] that dissolved iron concentration is a key variable that controls phytoplankton processes in ocean surface waters However, the measurement of dissolved iron concentration in seawater remains a difficult task [Bruland and Rue, 2001] with significant interlaboratory differences apparent at times. The availability of a seawater reference solution with well-known dissolved iron (Fe) concentrations similar to open-ocean values, which could be used for the calibration of equipment or other tasks, would greatly alleviate these problems [National Research Council (NRC), 2002
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TL;DR: In this paper, rare earth element (REE) data for fresh and altered tholeiitic basalts sampled during a dredging transect at 23°N in the Atlantic Ocean and covering a time span of 0 to 57 million years are presented.
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TL;DR: It is shown that under a constant phytoplankton demand for CO2 an inverse, nonlinear SPOM delta 13C response to ambient [CO2(aq)] is expected, unlike the negative linear relationships indicated by data from the NABE Site and or from Southern Hemisphere waters.
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TL;DR: This article showed that the volcanism that forms the oceanic crust along the spreading-plate boundaries is concentrated at regular intervals related to the spreading rate, and used this observation and a new calculation for a Rayleigh-Taylor type of gravitational instability of a partially molten mantle region growing under spreading centers to estimate upper mantle viscosities.
Abstract: Studies of mid-ocean ridges in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans show that the volcanism that forms the oceanic crust along the spreading-plate boundaries is concentrated at regular intervals related to spreading rate. This observation and a new calculation for a Rayleigh–Taylor type of gravitational instability of a partially molten mantle region growing under spreading centres yield reasonable estimates of upper mantle viscosities.
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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| Roberto Romero | 151 | 1516 | 108321 |
| Jerry M. Melillo | 134 | 383 | 68894 |
| Timothy J. Mitchison | 133 | 404 | 66418 |
| Xiaoou Tang | 132 | 553 | 94555 |
| Jillian F. Banfield | 127 | 562 | 60687 |
| Matthew Jones | 125 | 1161 | 96909 |
| Rodolfo R. Llinás | 120 | 386 | 52828 |
| Ronald D. Vale | 117 | 342 | 49020 |
| Scott C. Doney | 111 | 406 | 59218 |
| Alan G. Marshall | 107 | 1060 | 46904 |
| Peter K. Smith | 107 | 855 | 49174 |
| Donald E. Canfield | 105 | 298 | 43270 |
| Edward F. DeLong | 102 | 262 | 42794 |
| Eric A. Davidson | 101 | 281 | 45511 |
| Gary G. Borisy | 101 | 248 | 38195 |