FN Archimer Export Format
PT J
TI Abyssal hill characterization at the ultraslow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge
BT 
AF SLOAN, Heather
   SAUTER, Daniel
   GOFF, John A.
   CANNAT, Mathilde
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;
C1 CUNY Herbert H Lehman Coll, Bronx, NY 10468 USA.
   Univ Strasbourg EOST, CNRS, IPGS UMR 7516, Inst Phys Globe Strasbourg, F-67084 Strasbourg, France.
   Univ Texas Austin, Inst Geophys, Jackson Sch Geosci, Austin, TX 78758 USA.
   Inst Phys Globe Strasbourg, CNRS UMR 7154, Equipe Geosci Marines, F-75252 Paris 05, France.
C2 UNIV CITY NEW YORK, USA
   UNIV STRASBOURG, FRANCE
   UNIV TEXAS AUSTIN, USA
   IPGP, FRANCE
IF 2.94
TC 12
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00266/37682/36757.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00266/37682/36758.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR MD 135 / SWIR 61-65
   MD 137 / KERGUEPLAC-1
   MD 165 / KERGUEPLAC 3
   MD 171 / GEISEIR-1
BO Marion Dufresne
DE ;Southwest Indian Ridge;abyssal hills;seafloor morphology
AB The morphology of the flanks of the Southwest Indian Ridge holds a record of seafloor formation and abyssal hill generation at an ultraslow spreading rate. Statistical analysis of compiled bathymetry and gravity data from the flanks of the Southwest Indian Ridge from 54 degrees E to 67 degrees E provides estimates of abyssal hill morphologic character and inferred crustal thickness. The extent of the compiled data encompasses a spreading rate change from slow to ultraslow at similar to 24 Ma, a significant inferred variation in sub-axis mantle temperature, and a patchwork of volcanic and non-volcanic seafloor, making the Southwest Indian Ridge an ideal and unique location to characterize abyssal hills generated by ultraslow spreading and to examine the effect of dramatic spreading rate change on seafloor morphology. Root mean square abyssal hill height in ultraslow spreading seafloor ranges from similar to 280 m to similar to 320 m and is on average similar to 80 m greater than found for slow-spreading seafloor. Ultraslow spreading abyssal hill width ranges from similar to 4 km to similar to 12 km, averaging similar to 8 km. Abyssal hill height and width increases west-to-east in both slow and ultraslow spreading seafloor, corresponding to decreasing inferred mantle temperature. Abyssal hills persist in non-volcanic seafloor and extend continuously from volcanic to non-volcanic terrains. We attribute the increase of abyssal hill height and width to strengthening of the mantle portion of the lithosphere as the result of cooler subaxial mantle temperature and conclude that abyssal hill height is primarily controlled by the strength of the mantle component of the lithosphere rather than spreading rate.
PY 2012
PD FEB
SO Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
SN 1525-2027
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 13
IS 1
UT 000299991100001
DI 10.1029/2011GC003850
ID 37682
ER

EF