12.753
Seminar in Oceanography at Woods Hole
Topics in marine geology and geophysics, physical, dynamical, and chemical oceanography. Content varies from term to term. 12.754 , 12.755, and 12.756 are letter-graded.
Spring 2006 · Geodynamics Seminar
Topics
- Ice Rules: Ice Cores and Ice Ages
- There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men…and Glaciers
- The Many Faces of the Surface of Ice
- Polar Remote Sensing
- Ice Sheet Modeling
- Glacial Earthquakes
- Tropical Glaciers
- Extremophiles, Subglacial Life
- Planetary Ice
- On the Mechanical Behavior of Ice with Emphasis on Brittle Failure
- Snowball Earth
- Global Ice
- Subglacial Volcanism
- Ice Bergs, Ice Shelves, Heinrich Events
- Ice Erosion and Tectonics
Readings
- Alley, Richard. “Abrupt Climate Changes: Oceans, Ice, and Us.” Oceanography 17, no. 4 (December 2004): 194-204.
- Schrag, D. P., and R. B. Alley. “Ancient Lessons for Our Future Climate.” Science 306 (October 29, 2004): 821-822.
- Alley, R., P. U. Clark, P. Huybrechts, and I. Joughin. “Ice-Sheet and Sea-Level Changes.” Science 310 (October 21, 2005): 456-460.
- Anandakrishnan, S., D. E. Voigt, and R. B. Alley. “Ice Stream D Flow Speed is Strongly Modulated by the Tide Beneath the Ross Ice Shelf.” Geophysical Research Letters 30, no. 0 (2003): 1361. doi: 10.1029/2002GL016329.
- Bindschadler, Robert A., Matt A King, Richard B Alley, and Sridhar Anandakrishnan. “Tidally Controlled Stick-slip Discharge of a West Antarctic Ice Stream.” Science 301, no. 5636 (August 22, 2003): Research Library Core p. 1087.
- Doake, C. S. M., H. F. J. Corr, K. W. Nicholls, A. Gaffikin, and A. Jenkins. “Tide-induced Lateral Movement of Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters 29, no. 8 (2002) 1226, 10.1029/2001GL014606.
- SPEAKERS: Dr. John S. Wettlaufer · READINGS FOR DISCUSSION: Dash, J. G., A.W. Rempel, and J. S. Wettlaufer. “The Physics of Permelted Ice and its Geophysical Consequences.” Rev Mod Phys In Press (February 16, 2006): 1- 48. · READINGS FOR REFERENCE: Tsemekhman, V., and J. S. Wettlaufer. “Singularities, Shocks, and Instabilities in Interface Growth.” Studies In Applied Mathematics 110 (2003): 221-256 by MIT.
- Joughin, Ian, and Slawek Tulaczyk. “Positive Mass Balance of the Ross Ice Streams, West Antarctica.” Science 295 (January 18, 2002): 476-480.
- Joughin, Ian, Waleed Abdalati, and Mark Fahnestock. “Large Fluctuations in Speed on Greenland’s Jakobshavn Isbræ Glacier.” Nature 432 (December 2, 2004): 608-610.
- Hulbe, Christina L., Douglas R. MacAyeal, George H. Denton, Johan Kleman, and Thomas V. Lowell. “Catastrophic Ice Shelf Breakup as the Source of Heinrich Event Icebergs.” Paleoceanography 19 (2004) PA1004, doi: 10.1029/2003PA000890.
- Scambos, Ted, Christina Hulbe, and Mark Fahnestock. “Climate-Induced Ice Shelf Disintegration In The Antarctic Peninsula.” Paleobiology and Paleoenvironments of Eoscene Rocks-Antarctic Research Series 76 (2003): 335-347. Copyright 2003 by the American Geophysical Union.
- SPEAKERS: Dr. Meredith Nettles · READINGS FOR DISCUSSION: Ekstrom, Goran, Meredith Nettles, and Victor C. Tsai. “Seasonality and Increasing Frequency of Greenland Glacial Earthquakes.” Accepted for Science (January 9, 2006).
- Ekstrom, Goran, Meredith Nettles, and Geoffrey A. Abers. “Glacial Earthquakes.” Science 302 (October 24, 2003).
- Thompson, Lonnie G., Mary E. Davis, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Ping-Nan Lin, Keith A. Henderson, and Tracy A. Mashiotta. “Tropical Ice Core Records: Evidence for Asynchronous Glaciation on Milankovitch Timescales.” Journal of Quaternary Science 20, nos. 7-8 (2005): 723-733.
- ———. “Tropical Glacier and Ice Core Evidence of Climate Change on Annual to Millennial Time Scales.” Climatic Change 59 (2003): 137-155.
- Thompson, L. G., E. Mosley-Thompson, M. E. Davis, K. A. Henderson, H. H. Brecher, V. S. Zagorodnov, T. A. Mashiotta, P-N. Lin, V. N. Mikhalenko, D. R. Hardy and J. Beer. “Kilimanjaro Ice Core Records: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change in Tropical Africa.” Science 298 (2002): 589-593.
- Priscu, J. C., and B. C. Christner. Earth’s icy biosphere. In “Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting.” Edited by A. Bull. Chapter 13. Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2004, pp. 130-145.
- Priscu, John C., Christian H. Fritsen, Edward E. Adams, Stephen J. Giovannoni, Hans W. Paerl, Christopher P. McKay, Peter T. Doran, Douglas A. Gordon, Brian D. Lanoil, and James L. Pinckney. “Perennial Antarctic Lake Ice: An Oasis for Life in a Polar Desert.” Science 280 (June 26, 1998).
- Priscu, John C., Edward E. Adams, W. Berry Lyons, Mary A. Voytek, David W. Mogk, Robert L. Brown, Christopher P. McKay, Cristina D. Takacs, Kathy A.. Welch, Craig F. Wolf, Julie D. Kirshtein, and Recep Avci. “Geomicrobiology of Subglacial Ice Above Lake Vostok, Antarctica.” Science 286 (December 10, 1999).
- Priscu, John C., Brent C. Christner, Christine M. Foreman, and George Royston-Bishop. “Biological Material in Ice Cores.” Revision Submitted to Encyclopedia of Quaternary Sciences (January 3, 2006).
- Doran, Peter T., Christian H. Fritsen, Christopher P. McKay, John C. Priscu, and Edward E. Adams. “Formation and Character of an Ancient 19-m Ice Cover and Underlying Trapped Brine in an “Ice-sealed” East Antarctic Lake.” PNAS 100, no. 1 (January 7, 2003) : 26-31.
- Siegert, Martin J., J. Cynan Ellis-Evans, Martyn Tranter, Christoph Mayer, Jean-Robert Petit, Andrey Salamatink, and John C. Priscu. “Physical, Chemical and Biological Processes in Lake Vostok and Other Antarctic Subglacial Lakes.” Nature 414 (December 6, 2001).
- Priscu, J. C., M. C. Kennicutt II, R. E. Bell, S. A. Bulat, J. C. Ellis-Evans,V. V. Lukin, J.-R. Petit, R. D. Powell, M. J. Siegert, and I. Tabacco. “Exploring Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments.” EOS 86, no. 20 (May 17, 2005).
- Overpeck, Jonathan T., Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, Gifford H. Miller, Daniel R. Muhs, Richard B. Alley, and Jeffrey T. Kiehl. “Paleoclimatic Evidence for Future Ice-sheet Instability and Rapid Sea-level Rise.” Science 311, no. 5768 (2006): 1747-1750. [Note: The Science issue that contains the this paper also focuses on “Climate Change. Breaking the Ice” as a theme, with other papers and an editorial]
- ACIA: Impacts of a warming Arctic, Arctic Climate Impact Assessment. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 139.
- Shuman, C. A., H. J. Zwally, B. E. Schutz, A. C. Brenner, J. P. DiMarzio, V. P. Suchdeo, and H. A. Fricker. “ICESat Antarctic Elevation Data: Preliminary Precision and Accuracy Assessment.” Geophysical Research Letters 33 (2006), L07501, doi: 10.1029/2005GL025227.
- Bamber, J. L, and A. J. Payne, eds. Mass Balance of the Cryosphere. Observations and Modeling of Contemporary and Future Changes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 644. [Includes many important papers on changes in the cryosphere.]
- Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers. How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth. New York, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005, p. 357.
- Schulson, Erland M. “Brittle Failure of Ice.” Engineering Fracture Mechanics 68 (2001): 1839-1887.
- ———. “The Fracture of Water Ice Ih: A Short Overview.” Meteoritics and Planetary Science (April 2006) (In press).
- Hoffman, Paul F., and Daniel P. Schrag. “The Snowball Earth Hypothesis: Testing the Limits of Global Change.” Terra Nova 14, no. 3 (2002): 129-155.
- Pollard, David, and James F. Kasting. “Snowball Earth: A Thin-ice Solution with Flowing Sea Glaciers.” Journal of Geophysical Research 110 (2005), C07010, doi: 10.1029/2004JC002525.
- Donnadieu, Yannick, Frederic Fluteau, Gilles Ramstein, Catherine Ritz, and Jean Besse. “Is There a Conflict Between the Neoproterozoic Glacial Deposits and the Snowball Earth Interpretation: An Improved Understanding with Numerical Modeling.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 208 (2003): 101-112.
- Flowers, Gwenn E., Helgi Björnsson, and Finnur Palsson. “A Coupled Sheet-conduit Mechanism for Jokulhlaup Propagation.” Geophysical Research Letters , DOI:10.1029/, Copyright 2004 by the American Geophysical Union.
- Björnsson, Helgi, and Pall Einarsson. “Volcanoes Beneath Vatnajokull, Iceland: Evidence from Radio Echo-sounding Earthquakes and Jokulhlaups. Jokull, no. 40 (1990).
- Björnsson, Helgi, Finnur Palsson, and Magnus T. Guomundsson. “Surface and Bedrock Topography of the Myrdalsjokull Ice Cap.” Jokull, no. 49.
- Björnsson, Helgi. “Subglacial Lakes and Jokulhlaups in Iceland.” Global and Planetary Change 35 (2002): 255-271.
- Dr. Sidney Hemming · Hemming, Sidney R. “Heinrich Events: Massive Late Pleistocene Detritus Layers Of The North Atlantic and Their Global Climate Imprint.” Review of Geophysics 42 (2004): RG1005.
Spring 2005 · Geodynamics Seminar
Topics
- Origin of Planetary Systems
- Early Earth and the Emergence of Life
- Giant Impacts and the Evolution of the Early Earth
- New Perspectives on Ancient Mars
- Why did the Composition of Seawater Change During the Phanerozoic?
- Evolution of the Martian Magnetic Field and Climate
- Earth Differentiation: A Planetary Perspective
- Unraveling The Early History Of Life: Using Genetics To Understand Molecular Markers In Archean Rocks
- Does the Earth’s Core Leak?
- From Dust to Terrestrial Planets: Time Scales from Short-Lived Radionuclides
- Origin of Archaean Cratons and Cratonic Mantle
- Environment and Life on the Early Earth
- TBA
Readings
- Arrhenius, G., and A. Lepland. “Accretion of Moon and Earth and the emergence of life.” Chemical Geology 169 (2000): 69-82.
- van Zuilen, Mark A., A. Lepland, Jan Teranes, J. Finarelli, M. Wahlen, and G. Arrhenius. “Graphite and carbonates in the 3.8 Ga old Isua Supracrustal Belt, southern West Greenland.” Precambrian Research 126 (2003): 331-348.
- Arrhenius, O. Gustaf. “Crystals and Life.” Helvetica Chimica 86 (2003): 1569-1586.
- Melosh, H. J. “Giant Impacts and the Thermal State of the Early Earth.” In Origin of the Earth . Edited by J. H. Jones and H. E. Newsom. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990, pp. 69-83. ISBN: 9780195066197.
- ———. “Giant Impacts and the Thermal State of the Early Earth.” In Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences . Edited by Shirley and Fairbridge. New York, NY: Springer, 1997, pp. 1-33. ISBN: 9780412069512.
- SES #: 4 · SPEAKERS: Dr. Maria Zuber · READINGS FOR DISCUSSION: Soloman, S. C., O. Aharonson, et al. “New Perspectives on Ancient Mars.” Science 307 (2005): 1214-1220.
- Hardie, L. A. “Secular variations in seawater chemistry: An explanation for the coupled secular variation in the mineralogies of marine limestones and potash evaporites over the past 600 My.” Geology 24 (1996): 279-283.
- Holland, H. D. “The geologic history of seawater.” In The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry. Edited by H. Elderfield. (Vol. Ed.) Vol. 6. Treatise on Geochemistry. Holland, HD; Turekian, Pergamon; 1 edition, 2006, pp. 583-625. ISBN: 9780080451015.
- Lowenstein, T. K., M. N. Timofeeff, S. T. Brennan, L. A. Hardie, and R. V. Demicco. “Oscillations in Phanerozoic seawater chemistry: Evidence from fluid inclusions.” Science 294 (2001): 1086-1088.
- ———. “Secular variation in seawater chemistry and the origin of calcium chloride basinal brines.” Geology 31 (2003): 857-860.
- Weiss, Benjamin P., Hojatollah Vali, Franz J. Baudenbacher’, Joseph L. Kirschvink, Sarah T. Stewart, and David L. Shuster. “Records of an ancient Martian magnetic field in ALH84001, Elsevier Science.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 201 (2002): 449-463.
- Weiss, Benjamin P., David L. Shuster, and G. Sarah T. Stewart. “Temperatures on Mars from 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of ALH84001, Elsevier Science.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 201 (2002): 465-472.
- Stevenson, David J. “Mars’ Core and Magnetism.” Nature 412 (July 12, 2001).
- Halliday, A. N. “The Origin and Earliest History of the Earth.” In Meteorites, Comets and Planets: Treatise on Geochemistry, Volume 1 . Edited by A. M. Davis. Amsterdam, NL: Elsevier B.V., 2006, pp. 509-557. ISBN: 9780080447209
- Chambers, J. E. “Planet Formation.” In Meteorites, Comets and Planets: Treatise on Geochemistry, Volume 1 . Edited by A. M. Davis. Amsterdam, NL: Elsevier B.V., 2006, pp. 461-475. ISBN: 9780080447209
- Pearson, Ann, Meytal Budin, and Jochen J. Brocks. “Phylogenetic and biochemical evidence for sterol synthesis in the bacterium Gemmata obscuriglobus.” PNAS 100, no. 26 (December 23, 2003): 15352-15357.
- Behrens, Anke, Philippe Schaeffer, Stefano Bernasconi, and Pierre Albrecht. “17(E)-13 alpha (H)-Malabarica-14(27), 17, 21-triene, an unexpected tricyclic hydrocarbon in sediments.” Organic Geochemistry 30 (1999): 379-383.
- Jochen Brocks, Graham Logan, Roger Buick, and Roger Summons. “Archean Molecular Fossils and the Early Rise of Eukaryotes.” Science 285 (August 13, 1999).
- Walker, Richard, and David Walker. “Does the Core Leak?” Submitted to EOS, February 18, 2005.
- Walker, Dave. “Core Issues, Canadian Mineralogist.” Amended ms. #3306 for Fleet Symposium Issue, February 5, 2005.
- Walker, Dave. “Core Participation in Mantle Geochemistry: Geochemical Society Ingerson Lecture, GSA Denver 1999.” Geochimica et Cosmochinica Acta 64, no. 17 (2000): 2897-2911.
- Walker, Dave, et al. “O2 volumes at high pressure from KClO4 decomposition: D as a siderophile element pump instead of a lid on the core.” Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems - G3 3, no. 11 (November 23, 2002).
- Knittle, Elise, and Raymond Jeanloz. “Earth’s Core-Mantle Boundary: Results of Experiments at High Pressures and Temperatures.” Science 251, no. 5000 (March 22, 1991): 1438-1443. (New Series)
- Hugh, St., and C. O’Neill. “Oxide-metal equilibria to 2500 degree C and 25 GPa: Implications for core formation and the light component in the Earth’s core.” Journal of Geophysical Research 103, no. B6 (June 10, 1998): 12, 239-12, 260.
- Wadhwa, M., G. Srinivasan, and R. W. Carlson. “Time Scales of Planetesimal Differentiation.” In Meteorites and the Early Solar System II . Edited by D. Lauretta, L. A. Leshin and H. Y. McSween, Jr. Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780816525621.
- Foley, C. N., M. Wadhwa, L. Borg, P. E. Janney, R. Hines, and T. L. Grove. “The Early Differentiation History of Mars from New Constraints on the 182W-142Nd Isotope Systematics in SNC Meteorites.” Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta (2005) in revision.
- Dauphas, N., M. van Zuilen, M. Wadhwa, A. M. Davis, S. Marty, and P. E. Janney. “Clues from Fe Isotope Variations on the Origin of Early Archean BIFs from Greenland.” Science 306 (2004): 2077-2080.
- Bédard, Jean H. “Evidence for Regional-Scale, Pluton-Driven, High-Grade Metamorphism in Archaean Minto Block, Northern Superior Province, Canada.” The Journal of Geology 111 (2003): 183-205.
- Bédard, Jean H., Pierre Brouillette, Louis Madore, and Alain Berclaz. “Archean cratonization and deformation in the northern Superior Province, Canada: an evaluation of plate tectonic versus verticle tectonic models, Elsevier.” Precambrian Research 127 (2003): 61-87.
- Bédard, J. H. “Erratum to Archaean cratonization and deformation in the northern Superior Province, Canada: an evaluation of plate tectonic versus vertical tectonic models.” Precambian Research 127 (2003): 61-87, and “Elsevier.” Precambrian Research 131 (2004): 373-374.
- James Kasting, and David Catling. “Evolution of a Habitable Planet.” Annual Revised Astron. Astrophys 41 (2003): 429-63.
- Canfeld, D. E. “A New Model for Proterozoic Ocean Chemistry.” Nature 396 (December 3, 1998).
- Rouxel, Olivier J., Andrey Bekker, and Katrina J. Edwards. “Iron Isotope Constraints on the Archean and Paleoproterozoic.” Science 307 (February 18, 2005).
- Yamaguchi, Kosei E., Clark M. Johnson, Brian L. Beard, and Hiroshi Ohmoto. “Biogeochemical cycling of iron in the Archean-Paleoproterozoic Earth: Constraints from iron isotope variations in sedimentary rocks from the Kaapvaal and Pilbara Cratons.” Chemical Geology , Article in Press; accepted 26 January 2005.
Spring 2001 · Geodynamics Seminar
Topics
- Scenes in the Life of a Mantle Plume
- Origin and Evolution of the Galapagos Plateau
- Seismic Tomography of the Iceland Plume
- Basic Geochemical Aspects of Plume - Ridge Interactions
- Plate Motions and Spreading Ridge Evolution Near the Galapagos Hotspot
- Dynamics of Plumes and Hotspots
- Evolution and Dynamics of the Iceland Hotspot in the North Atlantic
- Mantle Heterogeneity in the North Atlantic
- Magmatic Structure of Axial Volcano, Juan de Fuca Ridge
- Iceland Plume: Blowing in the Wind?
- Insights into Ridge-Hotspot Interaction on the Juan de Fuca Ridge: Geochemical Investigations of Axial Seamount and Adjacent Rift Zones
- Plumes at Plate Boundaries (When Bad Things Happen to Good Plumes)
- Chemolithoautotrophic Extremophiles and Biogeography of Vent Biota
- Origination Depth of Mantle Plumes
- Field Trip to Yellowstone
Readings
- Ribe, N., U. Christensen, and J. Theissing. “The dynamics of plume-ridge interaction, 1: Ridge-centered plumes.” Earth Planet Sci Lett 134 (1995): 155-168.
- Ito, G., Y. Shen, G. Hirth, and C. Wolfe. “Mantle flow, melting and dehydration of the Iceland mantle plume.” Earth Planet Sci Lett 165 (1999): 81-96.
- White, W. M., A. R. McBirney, and R. A. Duncan. “Petrology and Geochemistry of the Galapagos: Portrait of a Pathological Mantle Plume.” J Geophys Res 93 (1993): 19533-19563.
- Richards, M. A., and R. W. Griffiths. “Thermal entrainment by deflected mantle plumes.” Nature 342 (1989): 900-902.
- Schilling, J. G. “Upper mantle Heterogeneities and dynamics.” Nature 314 (1985): 62-67.
- ———. “Fluxes and excess temperatures of the mantle plumes inferred from their interaction with migrating mid-ocean ridges.” Nature 352 (1991): 397-403.
- Wilson, D. S., and R. N. Hey. “History of rift propagation and magnetization intensity for the Cocos-Nazca spreading center.” J Geophys Res 100 (1995): 10,041-10,056.
- Sinton, J. M., D. S. Wilson, D. M. Christie, R. N. Hey, and J. R. Delaney. “Petrologic consequences of rift propagation on oceanic spreading ridges.” Earth Planet Sci Lett 62 (1983): 193-207.
- Hieronymus, C. F., and D. Bercovici. “Discrete alternating hotspot islands formed by the interaction of magma transport and lithospheric flexure.” Nature 397 (1999): 604-607.
- ———. “Non-hotspot formation of volcanic chains: control of tectonic and flexural stresses on magma transport.” Earth Planet Sci Lett 181 (2000): 539-554.
- Albers, M., and U. R. Christensen. “Channeling of plume flow beneath mid-ocean ridges.” Earth Planet Sci Lett 187 (2001): 207-220.
- Ito, G. “Reykjanes ‘V’-shaped ridges originating from a pulsing and dehydrating mantle plume.” Nature 411 (2001): 681-684.
- Korenaga, J., and P. B. Kelemen. “Major element heterogeneity in the mantle source of the North Atlantic igneous province.” Earth Planet Sci Lett 184 (2000): 251-268.
- Gudmundsson, O., B. Brandsdottir, W. Menke, and H. Olafsson. “The magma chamber of Katla volcano in the propagating volcanic zone of south Iceland revealed by seismic undershooting.” Geophys J Int 119 (1994): 227-296.
- Fox, C. G. “In situ ground deformation measurements from the summit of Axial Volcano during the 1998 volcanic episode.” Geophys Res Lett 26 (1999): 3437-3440.
- Embley, R. W., W. W. Chadwick Jr., M. R. Perfit, M. C. Smith, and J. R. Delaney. “Recent eruptions on the CoAxial segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge: Implications for mid-ocean ridge accretion processe.s” J Geophys Res 105 (2000): 16501-16525.
- Steingerger, B., and R. J. O’Connell. “Effects of mantle flow on hotspot motion.” In The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions . Edited by M. A. Richards, R. G. Gordon, and R. D. van der Hilst. Washington, DC: Amer Geophysical Union , 2000, pp. 377-398. ISBN: 9780875909790.
- Shen, Y., et al. “Seismic evidence for a lower mantle origin of the Iceland plume.” Nature 395 (1998): 62-65.
- Rhodes, J. M., C. Morgan, and R. A. Liias. “Geochemistry of Axial Seamount lavas: Magmatic relationship between the Cobb hotspot and the Juan de Fuca Ridge.” J Geophys Res 95 (1990): 12,713-12,733.
- Desonie, D. L., and R. A. Duncan. “The Cobb-Eickelberg seamount chain: Hotspot volcanism with mid-ocean ridge basalt affinity.” J Geophys Res 95 (1990): 12,697-12,711.
- Geist, D., T. Naumann, and P. Larson. “Evolution of Galapagos Magmas: Mantle and Crustal Fractionation without Assimilation.” J. Petrology 39 (1998): 953-971.
- Geist, D., and M. Richards. “Origin of the Columbia Plateau and Snake River Plain: Deflection of the Yellowstone plume.” Geology 21(1993): 789-792.
- Naumann, T. R., and D. J. Geist. “Generation of alkalic basalt by crystal fractionation of tholeiitic magma.” Geology 27 (1999): 423-426.
- McCollom, T. M. “Geochemical constraints on primary productivity in submarine hydrothermal vent plumes.” Deep-Sea Research 47 (2000): 85-101.
- Tunnicliffe, V., and C. M. R. Fowler. “Influence of sea-floor spreading on the global hydrothermal vent fauna.” Nature 379 (1996): 531-533.
- Morgan, Phipps, et al. “Observational hints for a plume-fed sub-oceanic asthneosphere and its role in mantle convection.” Journal of Geophys. Res . 100 (1995): 12753-12768.
- Morgan, Phipps, J., and W. J. Morgan. “Two-stage melting and the geochemical evolution of the mantle: a recipe for mantle plum-pudding.” _Earth Planet Sci Lett_170 (1999): 215-239.
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