Episodic kinematics in continental rifts modulated by changes in mantle melt fraction

• Main Authors: Moore, James Daniel Paul, Smith, Euan, Stern, Tim, Lamb, Simon
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Geodynamics; Geophysics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86884; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44212
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Oceanic crust is created by the extraction of molten rock from underlying mantle at the seafloor ‘spreading centres’ found between diverging tectonic plates. Modelling studies have suggested that mantle melting can occur through decompression as the mantle flows upwards beneath spreading centres1, b...