Oceanic Core Complex die off and generation of enhanced mantle upwelling on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge - 22° N

EGU2011-13199 Images of crustal construction provide a key to understand the interplay of magmatism and tectonism while oceanic crust is build up. Bathymetric data show that the crustal construction is highly variable. Areas that are dominated by magmatic processes are adjacent to areas that are highly tectonised and where mantle rocks were found. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 22°N shows this high variability along the ridge axis, within the TAMMAR segment, and from segment to segment. However, this strong variability occurs also off-axis, spreading parallel, representing different times in the same area of the ridge. A fracture zone, with limited magma supply, has been replaced by a segment centre with a high magmatic budget. Roughly 4.5 million years ago, the growing magmatic active TAMMAR segment, propagated into the fracture zone, started the migration of the ridge offset to the south, and stopped the formation of core complexes. We present data from seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection profiles that surveyed the crustal structure across the ridge crest of the TAMMAR segment. These yield the crustal structure at the segment centre as a function of melt supply. The results suggest that crust is ~8 km thick near the ridge and decreases in thickness with offset to the ridge axis. Seismic layer 3 shows profound changes in thickness and becomes rapidly one kilometre thicker approx. 5 million years ago. This correlates with gravimetric data and the observed “Bull’s eye” anomaly in that region. Our observations support a temporal change from thick lithosphere with oceanic core complex formation to thin lithosphere with focussed mantle upwelling and segment growing. The formation of ‘thick-crust’ volcanic centre seems to have coincided with the onset of propagation 4.5 million years ago

La hospitalidad en “Abraham y los tres ángeles”, obra de Juan Van der Hamen. v.1

Se analiza el cuadro Abraham y los tres ángeles, de Juan de Van der Hamen y León para destacar sus características estilísticas y el interés iconográfico de la escena pintada por la forma en que este artista ha interpretado el tema bíblico de la aparición de los tres ángeles en casa de Abraham para anunciarle que Sara concebirá un hijo. Esta misma escena se ha convertido en paradigma de la hospitalidad en la religión judía, musulmana y cristiana, representada recurrentemente desde el románico hasta el siglo XX. ABSTRACT: The hospitality theme in the work of Juan Van der Hamen y León, Abraham and the three angels. This paper analyses the painting Abraham and the three angels by Juan de Van der Hamen y Leon for highlight the stylistic characteristics and the iconographic interest of the scene, a special way by which the artist interpreted the Biblical theme of the apparition of the three angels in the house of Abraham to announce that Sara would conceive a son. This same scene has been convert as a paradigm of hospitality in the Jewish, Muslims and Christian religion, represented recurrently from the Romanic period to the 20th century

Interplate seismicity at the CRISP site: the 2002 Osa earthquake sequence

The Costa Rica Seismogenesis Project (CRISP) is designed to explore the processes involved in the nucleation of large interplate earthquakes in erosional subduction zones. On 16 June 2002 a magnitude Mw=6.4 earthquake and its aftershocks may have nucleated at the subduction thrust to be penetrated and sampled by CRISP, ~40 km west of Osa Peninsula. Global event locations present uncertainties too large to prove that the event actually occurred at a location and depth reachable by riser drilling. We have compiled a database including foreshocks, the main shock, and ~400 aftershocks, with phase arrival times from all the seismological networks that recorded the 2002 Osa sequence locally. This includes a temporal network of ocean-bottom hydrophones (OBH) that happened to be installed close to the area at the time of the earthquake. The coverage increase provided by the OBH network allow us to better constrain the event relocations, and to further analyze the seismicity in the vicinity of Osa for the six months during which they were deployed. Moreover, we undertook teleseismic waveform inversion to provide additional constraints for the centroid depth of the 2002 Osa earthquake, allowing further study of the focal mechanism. Along the Costa Rican seismogenic zone, the 2002 Osa sequence is the most recent. It nucleated in the SE region of the forearc where this erosional margin is underthrust by a seamount covered ocean plate. A Mw=6.9 earthquake sequence occurred in 1999, co-located with a subducted ridge and associated seamounts. The Osa mainshock and first hours of aftershocks began in the CRISP area, ~30 km seaward of the 1999 sequence. In the following two weeks, subsequent aftershocks migrated into the 1999 aftershock area and also clustered in an area updip from it. The Osa updip seismicity apparently occurred where interplate temperatures are ~100°C or less. In this study, we present the relocation of the 2002 Osa earthquake sequence and background seismicity using different techniques and a moment tensor inversion for the mainshock, and discuss the corresponding uncertainties, in an effort to provide further evidence that the planned Phase B of CRISP will be successful in drilling the seismogenic coupling zone

Estudio geofísico de la corteza oceánica de la Cuenca Canaria (Atlántico Centro-Oriental)

[ES] El estudio combinado de datos de sísmica de reflexión de multicanal y de monocanal permite conocer la estructura de la corteza oceánica de la Cuenca Canaria y relacionarla con la historia de la expansión del fondo oceánico y las principales estructuras tectónicas formadas durante el Mesozoico en el Atlántico Central.[EN] The combined study of single and multi-channel seismic reflection data allow us to understand the structure of the Canary Basin oceanic crust and their relationship with the seafloor spreading history and main tectonic features formed during Mesozoic times on the Central Atlantic.Este trabajo es parte del estudio llevado a cabo por C.R. Ranero, bajo la dirección de E Banda, en el Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra "Jaume Almera" del CSIC para la obtención del grado de Doctor. C.R. Ranero recibió financiación durante su estancia en el Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra mediante unsi beca de "Formació d'Investigadors de el "Departament d'Ensenyament de la Generalitat de Catalunya".Peer reviewe