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Professor Christine Peirce's Outputs (3)

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 13º20’N: High-Resolution Magnetic and Bathymetry Imaging (2018)
Journal Article
Searle, R., MacLeod, C., Peirce, C., & Reston, T. (2019). The Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 13º20’N: High-Resolution Magnetic and Bathymetry Imaging. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(1), 295-313. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gc007940

We describe detailed magnetic and bathymetric studies around 13°N on the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge, a site of extensive detachment faulting. Inversion of closely spaced sea surface magnetic anomalies reveals a disorganized pattern of magnetization, with ano... Read More about The Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 13º20’N: High-Resolution Magnetic and Bathymetry Imaging.

Construction and subduction of the Louisville Ridge, SW Pacific—insights from wide-angle seismic data modelling (2018)
Journal Article
Robinson, A., Peirce, C., & Funnell, M. (2018). Construction and subduction of the Louisville Ridge, SW Pacific—insights from wide-angle seismic data modelling. Geophysical Journal International, 215(3), 2222-2245. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggy397

The Louisville Ridge is a ca. 4000 km-long chain of seamounts in the SW Pacific that is currently being subducted at the Tonga-Kermadec trench. The Pacific Plate, on which the chain sits, is subducting obliquely beneath the Indo-Australian Plate. Com... Read More about Construction and subduction of the Louisville Ridge, SW Pacific—insights from wide-angle seismic data modelling.

Episodic magmatism and serpentinized mantle exhumation at an ultraslow spreading centre (2018)
Journal Article
Grevemeyer, I., Hayman, N., Peirce, C., Schwardt, M., van Avendonk, H., Dannowski, A., & Papenberg, C. (2018). Episodic magmatism and serpentinized mantle exhumation at an ultraslow spreading centre. Nature Geoscience, 11, 444-448. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0124-6

Mid-ocean ridges spreading at ultraslow rates of less than 20 mm yr−1 can exhume serpentinized mantle to the seafloor, or they can produce magmatic crust. However, seismic imaging of ultraslow-spreading centres has not been able to resolve the abunda... Read More about Episodic magmatism and serpentinized mantle exhumation at an ultraslow spreading centre.