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70 million years of seafloor spreading and magmatism in the South Atlantic
Earth and Planetary Science Letters ( IF 5.3 ) Pub Date : 2021-09-07 , DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117173
Justin Estep 1 , Bobby Reece 1 , Gail L. Christeson 2 , Dominik A. Kardell 2 , Richard L. Carlson 1
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A basic tenet of seafloor spreading is the need to spatially accommodate the magnitude of lateral spreading. As new spreading proceeds and crust is transported away from the spreading axis, the space created is filled by both the magmatic accretion of new oceanic crust and the brittle stretching of that crust by extensional faults. The ratio between the magmatism and faulting, referred to as M, is dynamically related to the rate of spreading and the topographic roughness of the generated crust. Here we use a multichannel seismic dataset recently collected in the South Atlantic Ocean to examine how the relationships between spreading rate, M, and topographic roughness have changed over 70 million years of crustal ages all created at one spreading segment. We frequency filter the topographic profile of the top of the igneous crust to remove long wavelength signal and determine the best window length for analysis. We then use a moving window to quantify how M and the root mean square of topographic roughness vary across the age transect. Qualitatively and quantitatively, we find spreading rate and M are positively correlated while M and spreading rate are negatively correlated with the topographic roughness of the crust. We are able to expand the age and length scale of an analysis of M by an order of magnitude compared to previous studies. Our analysis also finds that the spreading center in the South Atlantic has likely alternated between an axial high and axial valley twice in the past.



中文翻译:

南大西洋 7000 万年的海底扩张和岩浆活动

海底扩张的一个基本原则是需要在空间上适应横向扩张的幅度。随着新的扩张进行并且地壳被运离扩张轴,所产生的空间被新洋壳的岩浆增生和伸展断层对地壳的脆性拉伸所填充。岩浆活动和断层作用之间的比率,称为 M,与扩张速度和生成地壳的地形粗糙度动态相关。在这里,我们使用最近在南大西洋收集的多通道地震数据集来研究在一个扩张段产生的超过 7000 万年的地壳年龄中,扩张速率、M 和地形粗糙度之间的关系是如何发生变化的。我们对火成岩地壳顶部的地形剖面进行频率滤波以去除长波长信号并确定用于分析的最佳窗口长度。然后,我们使用移动窗口来量化 M 和地形粗糙度的均方根如何在年龄横断面上变化。从定性和定量上,我们发现铺展率和 M 呈正相关,而 M 和铺展率与地壳的地形粗糙度呈负相关。与之前的研究相比,我们能够将 M 分析的年龄和长度尺度扩大一个数量级。我们的分析还发现,过去南大西洋的扩张中心可能在轴高和轴谷之间交替出现两次。然后,我们使用移动窗口来量化 M 和地形粗糙度的均方根如何在年龄横断面上变化。从定性和定量上,我们发现铺展率和 M 呈正相关,而 M 和铺展率与地壳的地形粗糙度呈负相关。与之前的研究相比,我们能够将 M 分析的年龄和长度尺度扩大一个数量级。我们的分析还发现,过去南大西洋的扩张中心可能在轴高和轴谷之间交替出现两次。然后,我们使用移动窗口来量化 M 和地形粗糙度的均方根如何在年龄横断面上变化。从定性和定量上,我们发现铺展率和 M 呈正相关,而 M 和铺展率与地壳的地形粗糙度呈负相关。与之前的研究相比,我们能够将 M 分析的年龄和长度尺度扩大一个数量级。我们的分析还发现,过去南大西洋的扩张中心可能在轴高和轴谷之间交替出现两次。与之前的研究相比,我们能够将 M 分析的年龄和长度尺度扩大一个数量级。我们的分析还发现,过去南大西洋的扩张中心可能在轴高和轴谷之间交替出现两次。与之前的研究相比,我们能够将 M 分析的年龄和长度尺度扩大一个数量级。我们的分析还发现,过去南大西洋的扩张中心可能在轴高和轴谷之间交替出现两次。

更新日期:2021-09-08
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