Basalt petrogenesis beneath slow- and ultraslow-spreading Arctic mid-ocean ridges

• Main Author: Elkins, Lynne J.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2009
• Subjects: Petrogenesis; Basalt; Polarstern (Ship) Cruise ARK V/Ib; Polarstern (Ship) Cruise ARK VII/1; Poseidon (Ship) Cruise POS185; Poseidon (Ship) Cruise POS210/1; Poseidon (Ship) Cruise POD221; Poseidon (Ship) Cruise POS229; Poseidon (Ship) Cruise POS291; Poseidon (Ship) Cruise POS326; Trident (Ship) Cruise TR139; Endeavor (Ship: 1976-) Cruise EN26; Professor Logatchev (Ship) Cruise; Oden (Ship) Cruise 11; Arctic; Gakkel Ridge; Knipovich Ridge; Kolbeinsey; Kolbeinsey Ridge; Trident; Ocean Island
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1912/2855

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution February 2009 To explore the ability of melting mafic lithologies to produce alkaline ocean-island basalts (OIB), an e...