10. Primary Silicate Mineral Chemistry of a 1.5-km Section of Very Slow Spreading Lower Ocean Crust: ODP Hole 735B, Southwest Indian Ridge

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION

ANALYTICAL METHODS

TABLES OF ANALYSES

RESULTS

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS

Stratigraphy of Intrusion

Tectonic Controls on Late-Stage Melt Migration

Cryptic Chemical Variations in the Olivine Gabbros

Evidence of Large-Scale Late-Stage Permeable Melt Flow in the Olivine Gabbros

Contrast of Hole 735B to Gabbros from Fast-Spreading Ridges and Ophiolites

Erupted MORBs and Their Relationship to the Lower Ocean Crust

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

REFERENCES

CHAPTER NOTE

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