Causes and Consequences of Diachronous V-Shaped Ridges in the North Atlantic Ocean

• Main Authors: Parnell-Turner, Ross, White, Nicky, Henstock, Timothy J., Jones, Stephen M., Maclennan, John, Murton, Bramley
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AGU 2017
• Subjects: 02 - Geodynamics; Geophysics and Tectonics; Reykjanes; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/4045/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/4045/1/2017JB014225RR_accepted.pdf; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/4045/7/Parnell-Turner_et_al-2017-Journal_of_Geophysical_Research%253A_Solid_Earth.pdf; https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017JB014225

In the North Atlantic Ocean, the geometry of diachronous V‐shaped features that straddle the Reykjanes Ridge is often attributed to thermal pulses which advect away from the center of the Iceland plume. Recently, two alternative hypotheses have been proposed: rift propagation and buoyant mantle upwe...