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Multistage hydrothermal alteration of gabbroic rocks from the failed Mathematician Ridge
Stakes, D.; Vanko, D.A. (1986). Multistage hydrothermal alteration of gabbroic rocks from the failed Mathematician Ridge. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 79(1-2): 75-92. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X(86)90042-7
In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Elsevier: Amsterdam. ISSN 0012-821X; e-ISSN 1385-013X, more
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Keywords
    Earth sciences > Geology > Lithology
    Metamorphism > Hydrothermal alteration
    Rocks > Igneous rocks > Gabbros
    ISE, Mathematician Ridge
    Marine/Coastal

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  • Stakes, D.
  • Vanko, D.A.

Abstract
    Oxygen isotopic, mineralogical and fluid inclusion data are presented for fresh and hydrothermally altered gabbroic rocks from the failed Mathematician Ridge. The Mathematician Ridge, though initially a fast-spreading ridge presently has a deep central rift valley more typical of slow-spreading rifts. The inner rift walls expose rare plutonic rocks uncomplicated by proximity to deep large-offset fracture zones. Undeformed Mathematician Ridge gabbros preserve most of the original texture and phase compositions and have been only slightly mineralogically or isotopically modified by post-crystallization hydrothermal alteration. Metagabbros have been subjected to a pervasive ductile deformation and recrystallization to foliated rocks composed of aluminous amphibole, low-calcium plagioclase and ilmenite. Oxygen isotope and phase chemical data suggest this event began at temperatures of up to 700 degree C, water-rock ratios of less than one, and produced modified seawater fluids with isotopic compositions of 3.5-6.0 ppt.

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