4) Where does partial melting occur and how do melts reach the magma chamber?
Including minimum of 5 references from books, scientific articles or from the below references list.
I will attach two more articles, i think it belongs to the question as well.
1. Karson JA, Klein EM, Hurst SD, et al. Structure of uppermost fast-spread oceanic crust exposed at the Hess
Deep Rift: Implications for subaxial processes at the East Pacific Rise GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS 3: Art.
No. 1002 2002
2. MacLeod CJ, Celerier, B, Fruh-Green, GL, and Manning, CE, Tectonics of Hess Deep: A synthesis of drilling
results from leg 147. In: Mevel et al, (eds) Proc Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 147, 461-475 (NB see
other papers in this volume)
3. Sinton, J.M. & Detrick, R.S., MIDOCEAN RIDGE MAGMA CHAMBERS. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth
97 (B1), 197-216 (1992)
4. Koepke et al., Petrography of the dike-gabbro transition at IODP Site 1256 (equatorial Pacific): The
evolution of the granoblastic dikes. G-cubed, 9, Q07o0910.1029/2008gc001939, (2008)
5. Coumou D et al., High-resolution three-dimensional simulations of mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems.
JGR 114 B0710410.1029/2008jb006121, 2009
6. Stewart MA, Karson JA, Klein EM, Four-dimensional upper crustal construction at fast-spreading mid-ocean
ridges: A perspective from an upper crustal cross-section at the Hess Deep Rift JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND
GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH 144 (1-4): 287-309 2005
7. Mission Moho workshop report http://interridge.whoi.edu/files/interridge/ildefonse_etal_2007.pdf
8. Morgan, J.P. & Chen, Y.J., THE GENESIS OF OCEANIC-CRUST – MAGMA INJECTION, HYDROTHERMAL CIRCULATION, AND
CRUSTAL FLOW. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth 98 (B4), 6283-6297 (1993).
9. German, C.R. & Lin, J., The thermal structure of the oceanic crust, ridge-spreading and hydrothermal
circulation: How well do we understand their inter-connections? In: German CR, Lin, J and Parson LJ, (eds)
Mid-Ocean Ridges: Hydrothermal Interactions between the Lithosphere and Oceans Geophysical Monograph 148, 1-18
(2004). (you will not be able to get a pdf of this – the book is in the library)
10. SPARKS DW., PARMENTIER EM., (1991)MELT EXTRACTION FROM THE MANTLE BENEATH SPREADING CENTERS EARTH AND
PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 105 368-377 DOI: 10.1016/0012-821X(91)90178-K
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