Competing effects of spreading rate, crystal fractionation and source variability on Fe isotope systematics in mid-ocean ridge lavas

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Richter, Marianne, Nebel, Oliver, Schwindinger, Martin, Nebel-Jacobsen, Yona, Dick, Henry J. B.
• Other Authors: Australian Research Council, National Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Gakkel Ridge; Pacific
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83387-7; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83387-7.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83387-7

Abstract Two-thirds of the Earth is covered by mid-ocean ridge basalts, which form along a network of divergent plate margins. Basalts along these margins display a chemical diversity, which is consequent to a complex interplay of partial mantle melting in the upper mantle and magmatic differentiati...