Seafloor spreading anomalies and crustal ages of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

被引:28
作者
Barckhausen, Udo [1 ]
Bagge, Meike [2 ]
Wilson, Douglas S. [3 ]
机构
[1] BGR Fed Inst Geosci & Nat Resources, Hannover, Germany
[2] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[3] UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA USA
关键词
Pacific; Spreading rates; Magnetic anomalies; Seafloor age; Clarion fracture zone; Clipperton fracture zone; HAWAIIAN-EMPEROR BEND; PACIFIC;
D O I
10.1007/s11001-013-9184-6
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
The Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the central Pacific is one of the few regions in the world's oceans that are still lacking full coverage of reliable identifications of seafloor spreading anomalies. This is mainly due to the geometry of the magnetic lineations' strike direction sub-parallel to the Earth's magnetic field vector near the equator resulting in low amplitude magnetic anomalies, and the remoteness of the region which has hindered systematic surveying in the past. Following recently granted research licenses for manganese nodules in the CCZ by the International Seabed Authority, new magnetic data acquired with modern instrumentation became available which combined with older underway data make the identification of seafloor spreading anomalies possible for large parts of the CCZ and adjacent areas. The spreading rates deduced from the seafloor spreading patterns show a sharp increase at the end of Chron 21 (47.5 Ma) which corresponds to the age of the bend in the Hawaii-Emperor seamount chain and an associated plate tectonic reorganisation in the Central Pacific. An accurate map of crustal ages for the central-eastern Pacific based on our anomaly picks may provide a basis for improved plate tectonic reconstructions of the region.
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