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Research in Structural Geology &
Tectonics
Internal Structure of Uppermost Oceanic Crust
at Hess Deep
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Construction of volcanic and sheeted dike units in 1 m.y.
old crust formed at the East Pacific Rise and exposed by intraoceanic
rifting near Hess Deep.
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Publications
Karson, J.A.,
S.D. Hurst, and P. Lonsdale, Tectonic rotations of dikes in
fast-spread oceanic crust exposed near Hess Deep, Geology,
20, 685-688, 1992.
Hurst, S.D., J.A.
Karson, and K.L. Verosub, Paleomagnetic study
of tilted diabase dikes in fast-spread oceanic crust exposed
at Hess Deep, Tectonics, 13, 789-802, 1994.
Karson, J.A.,
S.D. Hurst, E.M.
Klein, and Hess Deep ’99 Scientific Party, Large-scale
ARGO II digital images of upper crustal structures at Hess
Deep, RIDGE Events Newsletter, 10, 29-32, 1999.
Gillis, K.M., K. Muehlenbachs, M. Stewart, T. Gleeson, and
J.A. Karson,
Fluid Flow Patterns in Fast-spreading EPR Crust Exposed at
Hess Deep, J. Geophys. Res., in press, 2001.
Karson, J.A.,
E.M. Klein,
S.D. Hurst, C.E. Lee, P.A. Rivizzigno, D. Curewitz, A.R. Morris,
and Hess Deep ‘99 Scientific Party, Structure of uppermost
fast-spread oceanic crust exposed at the Hess Deep Rift: Implications
for subaxial processes at the East Pacific Rise, G-Cubed,
in press, 2001.
Karson, J.A.
and G.L. Christeson, Comparison of geologic and seismic structure
of uppermost fast-spread oceanic crust: Insights from a crustal
cross section at the Hess Deep Rift, in Small-Scale Crustal
Heterogeneity, edited by J. Goff and K. Holliger, Kluwer/Plenum
Publishing, in review 2001.
Karson, J.A.,
Geologic structure of uppermost oceanic crust from fast- to
intermediate-rate mid-ocean ridges, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet.
Sci., 30, in review, 2001.
Stewart, M.A., E.M.
Klein and J.A.
Karson, Geochemistry of the sheeted dike complex
exposed at the Hess Deep Rift and implications for spreading
processes at the East Pacific Rise, J. Geophys. Res., in review,
2001. |
