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Professor Christine Peirce's Outputs (8)

Determining the extent of hydrothermal interaction on the southern Costa Rica Rift ridge flank during the past 8 Ma from joint inversion of geophysical data (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, D., Moorkamp, M., Hobbs, R., Peirce, C., Harris, R., & Morgan, J. (2017, December). Determining the extent of hydrothermal interaction on the southern Costa Rica Rift ridge flank during the past 8 Ma from joint inversion of geophysical data. Paper presented at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

Oceanic detachment faults generate compression in extension (2017)
Journal Article
Parnell-Turner, R., Sohn, R., Peirce, C., Reston, T., MacLeod, C., Searle, R., & Simão, N. (2017). Oceanic detachment faults generate compression in extension. Geology, 45(10), 923-926. https://doi.org/10.1130/g39232.1

In extensional geologic systems such as mid-ocean ridges, deformation is typically accommodated by slip on normal faults, where material is pulled apart under tension and stress is released by rupture during earthquakes and magmatic accretion. Howeve... Read More about Oceanic detachment faults generate compression in extension.

Magmatic-tectonic conditions for hydrothermal venting on an ultraslow-spread oceanic core complex (2017)
Journal Article
Harding, J., Van Avendonk, H., Hayman, N., Grevemeyer, I., Peirce, C., & Dannowski, A. (2017). Magmatic-tectonic conditions for hydrothermal venting on an ultraslow-spread oceanic core complex. Geology, 45(9), 839-842. https://doi.org/10.1130/g39045.1

Hydrothermal venting, an important cooling mechanism of the Earth, supports a diverse array of seafloor and sub-seafloor ecosystems that are sustained by large thermal and chemical fluxes. Vents have been found along even the slowest and coldest spre... Read More about Magmatic-tectonic conditions for hydrothermal venting on an ultraslow-spread oceanic core complex.

Seismic structure and segmentation of the axial valley of the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center (2017)
Journal Article
Van Avendonk, H., Hayman, N., Harding, J., Grevemeyer, I., Peirce, C., & Dannowski, A. (2017). Seismic structure and segmentation of the axial valley of the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18(6), 2149-2161. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gc006873

We report the results of a two-dimensional tomographic inversion of marine seismic refraction data from an array of ocean-bottom seismographs (OBSs), which produced an image of the crustal structure along the axial valley of the ultraslow-spreading M... Read More about Seismic structure and segmentation of the axial valley of the Mid-Cayman Spreading Center.

Structural variability of the Tonga-Kermadec forearc characterised using robustly constrained geophysical data (2017)
Journal Article
Funnell, M., Peirce, C., & Robinson, A. (2017). Structural variability of the Tonga-Kermadec forearc characterised using robustly constrained geophysical data. Geophysical Journal International, 210(3), 1681-1702. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx260

Subducting bathymetric anomalies enhance erosion of the overriding forearc crust. The deformation associated with this process is superimposed on pre-existing variable crustal and sedimentary structures developed as a subduction system evolves. Recen... Read More about Structural variability of the Tonga-Kermadec forearc characterised using robustly constrained geophysical data.