Segment-scale volcanic episodicity: evidence from the North Kolbeinsey Ridge, Atlantic

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Yeo, I.A., Devey, C.W, Le Bas, T.P., Augustin, N., Steinführer, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Kolbeinsey; Kolbeinsey Ridge
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/389752/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/389752/1/1-s2.0-S0012821X16000510-main.pdf

The upper oceanic crust is produced by magmatism at mid-ocean ridges, a process thought to be characterized by cyclic bouts of intense magmatic activity, separated by periods when faulting accommodates most or even all of the plate motion. It is not known whether there is a distinct periodicity to s...