Essays about: "seamounts"

Found 2 essays containing the word seamounts.

  1. 1. Submarine Alteration of Seamount Rocks in the Canary Islands: Insights from Mineralogy, Trace Elements, and Stable Isotopes

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Aduragbemi Oluwatobi Sofade; [2018]
    Keywords : Canary Islands; seamounts; submarine alteration; trace elements; nannofossils; Kanarieöarna; djuphavsberg; undervattensomvandling; spårämnen; nanofossiler;

    Abstract : Seamounts play an important role in facilitating the exchange of elements between the oceanic lithosphere and the overlying seawater. This water-rock interaction is caused by circulating seawater and controls the chemical exchange in submarine and sub-seafloor rocks. READ MORE

  3. 2. Chromite in serpentine mud volcanoes of the Mariana forearc: Implications for abiotic organic reactions

    University essay from Institutionen för geologiska vetenskaper

    Author : Iga Sagatowska; [2010]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The Mariana convergent plate margin is a non- accretionary subduction system in the western Pacific Ocean. Subduction of the Pacific plate causes dissolution of carbonate minerals releasing inorganic carbon, and causes dehydration of hydrous minerals in the subducted slab, generating hydrous fluids. READ MORE