• DOI:10.1038/35073556
Corpus ID: 4403804

Melt retention and segregation beneath mid-ocean ridges

@article{Faul2001MeltRA,
  title={Melt retention and segregation beneath mid-ocean ridges},
  author={U. Faul},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2001},
  volume={410},
  pages={920-923}
}

U. Faul

Published 2001

Geology, Medicine

Nature

Geochemical models of melting at mid-ocean ridges—particularly those based on trace elements and uranium-decay-series isotopes—predict that melt segregates from the matrix at very low porosities, of order 0.1%. Some of these models also require that the melt ascends rapidly. But these predictions appear to conflict with seismic data obtained by the mantle electromagnetic and tomography (MELT) experiment. These data reveal, beneath the East Pacific Rise (at 17 °S), a region of low velocities… CONTINUE READING

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