Interaction between the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Azores hot spot during the last 85 Myr: Emplacement and rifting of the hot spot-derived plateaus
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...At the less productive oceanic hotspots of the Azores (Gente et al. 2003) and Canary Islands (Fullea et al....
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...At the less productive oceanic hotspots of the Azores (Gente et al. 2003) and Canary Islands (Fullea et al. 2015), clinopyroxene–melt barometry and petrographical observations show that magma batches partially crystallize and mix with preexisting magma batches in a zone of temporary magma storage…...
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...At the less productive oceanic hotspots of the Azores (Gente et al. 2003) and Canary Islands (Fullea et al. 2015), clinopyroxene–melt barometry and petrographical observations show that magma batches partially crystallize and mix with preexisting magma batches in a zone of temporary magma storage at near and sub-Moho depths of 15–40 km (Hansteen et al. 1998; Schwarz et al. 2004; Klugel et al. 2005; Galipp et al. 2006; Longpré et al. 2009; Stroncik et al. 2009)....
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...At the junction between three major lithospheric platesçthe North American, African and Eurasian platesçthe Azores islands are thus located in a complex tectonic setting characterized by anomalously thick crust ( 8 km; Luis et al., 1998; Gente et al., 2003; Dias et al., 2007; Georgen & Sankar, 2010; Silveira et al., 2010) and the presence of ‘V-shaped’ ridges along the adjacent MAR (e....
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...…platesçthe Azores islands are thus located in a complex tectonic setting characterized by anomalously thick crust ( 8 km; Luis et al., 1998; Gente et al., 2003; Dias et al., 2007; Georgen & Sankar, 2010; Silveira et al., 2010) and the presence of ‘V-shaped’ ridges along the adjacent MAR…...
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...…interaction between the triple junction of the Eurasian (Eu), Nubian (Nu), and North American (NA) plates [e.g., Laughton and Whitmarsh, 1974; Saemundsson, 1986], and a magmatic anomaly that some authors consider to be the Azores hotspot [Cannat et al., 1999; Gente et al., 2003; Schilling, 1975]....
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...Global present-day plate kinematic models of the Azores region imply a right lateral transtensional regime with an extensional component of 3–4 km/Myr [Minster and Jordan, 1978; DeMets et al., 1990]....
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...…in the Indian Ocean and the Tristan da Cunha hot spot in the South Atlantic Ocean, both located in its southern part for ages older than 30 Ma, while only the Reunion hot spot track is used for ages younger than 30 Myr [Minster and Jordan, 1978; Müller et al., 1993a; Gripp and Gordon, 1990, 2002]....
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...In the Central and North Atlantic near the Azores, their work mostly relies on the studies of Klitgord and Schouten [1986], Müller et al. [1993b], and Srivastava and Tapscott [1986]....
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...This age map had been compiled before the detailed satellite-derived gravity anomaly maps [Sandwell and Smith, 1997] were published, and while the age map of Müller et al. [1997] is a good first-order approximation, a closer look reveals some inconsistencies at a regional scale....
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...Satellitederived free-air gravity anomaly data [Sandwell and Smith, 1997], with regionally homogeneous coverage and quality, are much easier to handle than the uneven shipborne gravity data available...
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...Free air anomaly map of the North Atlantic [Sandwell and Smith, 1997] with locations of the different structures discussed in this paper....
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...A complete reassessment of the magnetic anomalies in the Central and North Atlantic Ocean would therefore be required to derive more accurate plate kinematics around the Azores triple junction....
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