Ultraslow Spreading Processes - A Microseismicity Study of the Knipovich Ridge

• Main Author: Meier, Michaela
• Other Authors: Schlindwein, Vera, Haberland, Christian
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Bremen 2022
• Subjects: microseismicity; ultraslow spreading ridge; Knipovich Ridge; spreading processes; magmatism; tectonism; mid-ocean ridge; seismology; earthquake; geophysics; 550; 550 Earth sciences and geology; ddc:550; Arctic
• Online Access: https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/5838; https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/1461; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib58388

Along the global mid-ocean ridge system, new seafloor is constantly formed as tectonic plates drift apart. When spreading rate is reduced to less than 20 mm/yr the spreading dynamics change drastically and thereby the entire appearance of these ultraslow spreading ridges differs from faster spreadin...