Spreading-rate dependence of melt extraction at mid-ocean ridges from mantle seismic refraction data.

Abstract:

:A variety of observations indicate that mid-ocean ridges produce less crust at spreading rates below 20 mm yr(-1) (refs 1-3), reflecting changes in fundamental ridge processes with decreasing spreading rate. The nature of these changes, however, remains uncertain, with end-member explanations being decreasing shallow melting or incomplete melt extraction, each due to the influence of a thicker thermal lid. Here we present results of a seismic refraction experiment designed to study mid-ocean ridge processes by imaging residual mantle structure. Our results reveal an abrupt lateral change in bulk mantle seismic properties associated with a change from slow to ultraslow palaeo-spreading rate. Changes in mantle velocity gradient, basement topography and crustal thickness all correlate with this spreading-rate change. These observations can be explained by variations in melt extraction at the ridge, with a gabbroic phase preferentially retained in the mantle at slower spreading rates. The estimated volume of retained melt balances the approximately 1.5-km difference in crustal thickness, suggesting that changes in spreading rate affect melt-extraction processes rather than total melting.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Lizarralde D,Gaherty JB,Collins JA,Hirth G,Kim SD

doi

10.1038/nature03140

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-12-09 00:00:00

pages

744-7

issue

7018

eissn

0028-0836

issn

1476-4687

pii

nature03140

journal_volume

432

pub_type

杂志文章

相关文献

NATURE文献大全
  • Imperfect optics may be the eye's defence against chromatic blur.

    abstract::The optics of the eye cause different wavelengths of light to be differentially focused at the retina. This phenomenon is due to longitudinal chromatic aberration, a wavelength-dependent change in refractive power. Retinal image quality may consequently vary for the different classes of cone photoreceptors, cells tune...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/417174a

    authors: McLellan JS,Marcos S,Prieto PM,Burns SA

    更新日期:2002-05-09 00:00:00

  • Identification of human CD4 residues affecting class II MHC versus HIV-1 gp120 binding.

    abstract::Interactions of CD4 with the class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are crucial during thymic ontogeny and subsequently for helper and cytotoxic functions of CD4+CD8- T lymphocytes. CD4 is the receptor for the T-lymphotropic human immunodeficiency virus and binds its envelope glycoprotein, gp120. The residues...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/339548a0

    authors: Clayton LK,Sieh M,Pious DA,Reinherz EL

    更新日期:1989-06-15 00:00:00

  • A map of the day-night contrast of the extrasolar planet HD 189733b.

    abstract::'Hot Jupiter' extrasolar planets are expected to be tidally locked because they are close (<0.05 astronomical units, where 1 au is the average Sun-Earth distance) to their parent stars, resulting in permanent daysides and nightsides. By observing systems where the planet and star periodically eclipse each other, sever...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature05782

    authors: Knutson HA,Charbonneau D,Allen LE,Fortney JJ,Agol E,Cowan NB,Showman AP,Cooper CS,Megeath ST

    更新日期:2007-05-10 00:00:00

  • Destabilization of beta-catenin by mutations in presenilin-1 potentiates neuronal apoptosis.

    abstract::Mutations of the presenilin-1 gene are a major cause of familial early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Presenilin-1 can associate with members of the catenin family of signalling proteins, but the significance of this association is unknown. Here we show that presenilin-1 forms a complex with beta-catenin in vivo that incr...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/27208

    authors: Zhang Z,Hartmann H,Do VM,Abramowski D,Sturchler-Pierrat C,Staufenbiel M,Sommer B,van de Wetering M,Clevers H,Saftig P,De Strooper B,He X,Yankner BA

    更新日期:1998-10-15 00:00:00

  • Quantum gravitational contributions to quantum electrodynamics.

    abstract::Quantum electrodynamics describes the interactions of electrons and photons. Electric charge (the gauge coupling constant) is energy dependent, and there is a previous claim that charge is affected by gravity (described by general relativity) with the implication that the charge is reduced at high energies. However, t...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature09506

    authors: Toms DJ

    更新日期:2010-11-04 00:00:00

  • Multi-domain conformational selection underlies pre-mRNA splicing regulation by U2AF.

    abstract::Many cellular functions involve multi-domain proteins, which are composed of structurally independent modules connected by flexible linkers. Although it is often well understood how a given domain recognizes a cognate oligonucleotide or peptide motif, the dynamic interaction of multiple domains in the recognition of t...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature10171

    authors: Mackereth CD,Madl T,Bonnal S,Simon B,Zanier K,Gasch A,Rybin V,Valcárcel J,Sattler M

    更新日期:2011-07-13 00:00:00

  • Bacterial pathogenomics.

    abstract::Genomes from all of the crucial bacterial pathogens of humans, plants and animals have now been sequenced, as have genomes from many of the important commensal, symbiotic and environmental microorganisms. Analysis of these sequences has revealed the forces that shape pathogen evolution and has brought to light unexpec...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1038/nature06248

    authors: Pallen MJ,Wren BW

    更新日期:2007-10-18 00:00:00

  • Models for metal ion function in carbonic anhydrase.

    abstract::A model catalyst is described which has properties in common with carbonic anhydrase. The model demonstrates the availability of a mechanism, previously only hypothetical, for the action of the enzyme. It also shows, however, that this mechanism alone is not adequate to produce the high activity of the enzyme. ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/258677a0

    authors: Woolley P

    更新日期:1975-12-25 00:00:00

  • Experimental determination of entanglement with a single measurement.

    abstract::Nearly all protocols requiring shared quantum information--such as quantum teleportation or key distribution--rely on entanglement between distant parties. However, entanglement is difficult to characterize experimentally. All existing techniques for doing so, including entanglement witnesses or Bell inequalities, dis...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature04627

    authors: Walborn SP,Souto Ribeiro PH,Davidovich L,Mintert F,Buchleitner A

    更新日期:2006-04-20 00:00:00

  • Stardust silicates from primitive meteorites.

    abstract::Primitive chondritic meteorites contain material (presolar grains), at the level of a few parts per million, that predates the formation of our Solar System. Astronomical observations and the chemical composition of the Sun both suggest that silicates must have been the dominant solids in the protoplanetary disk from ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature02510

    authors: Nagashima K,Krot AN,Yurimoto H

    更新日期:2004-04-29 00:00:00

  • A comprehensive transcriptional map of primate brain development.

    abstract::The transcriptional underpinnings of brain development remain poorly understood, particularly in humans and closely related non-human primates. We describe a high-resolution transcriptional atlas of rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) brain development that combines dense temporal sampling of prenatal and postnatal periods...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature18637

    authors: Bakken TE,Miller JA,Ding SL,Sunkin SM,Smith KA,Ng L,Szafer A,Dalley RA,Royall JJ,Lemon T,Shapouri S,Aiona K,Arnold J,Bennett JL,Bertagnolli D,Bickley K,Boe A,Brouner K,Butler S,Byrnes E,Caldejon S,Carey A,Cate

    更新日期:2016-07-21 00:00:00

  • Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain.

    abstract::Molecular approaches to understanding the functional circuitry of the nervous system promise new insights into the relationship between genes, brain and behaviour. The cellular diversity of the brain necessitates a cellular resolution approach towards understanding the functional genomics of the nervous system. We des...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature05453

    authors: Lein ES,Hawrylycz MJ,Ao N,Ayres M,Bensinger A,Bernard A,Boe AF,Boguski MS,Brockway KS,Byrnes EJ,Chen L,Chen L,Chen TM,Chin MC,Chong J,Crook BE,Czaplinska A,Dang CN,Datta S,Dee NR,Desaki AL,Desta T,Diep E,Dol

    更新日期:2007-01-11 00:00:00

  • A sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor regulates cell migration during vertebrate heart development.

    abstract::Coordinated cell migration is essential in many fundamental biological processes including embryonic development, organogenesis, wound healing and the immune response. During organogenesis, groups of cells are directed to specific locations within the embryo. Here we show that the zebrafish miles apart (mil) mutation ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/35018092

    authors: Kupperman E,An S,Osborne N,Waldron S,Stainier DY

    更新日期:2000-07-13 00:00:00

  • An immunoglobulin promoter displays cell-type specificity independently of the enhancer.

    abstract::Recent studies in which cloned immunoglobulin genes were introduced into cultured cells have produced two significant findings. First, the genes are expressed after transfection into lymphoid cells but not non-lymphoid cells. Second, transcription of an immunoglobulin gene requires, in addition to the promoter region,...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/315423a0

    authors: Foster J,Stafford J,Queen C

    更新日期:1985-05-30 00:00:00

  • Homology of Ti alpha-subunit of a T-cell antigen-MHC receptor with immunoglobulin.

    abstract::Human T-cell receptors for antigen and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) determinants have now been defined on inducer, suppressor, and class 1 and class 2 MHC-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes as T3-associated clonotypic molecules (Ti) of relative molecular mass 90,000 (90K) composed of one 49-54K alpha- and one ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/312269a0

    authors: Fabbi M,Acuto O,Smart JE,Reinherz EL

    更新日期:1984-11-15 00:00:00

  • A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture.

    abstract::Discovering evidence of behaviour in fossilized vertebrates is rare. Even rarer is evidence of behaviour in non-avialan dinosaurs that directly relates to stereotypical behaviour seen in extant birds (avians) and not previously predicted in non-avialan dinosaurs. Here we report the discovery of a new troodontid taxon ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature02898

    authors: Xu X,Norell MA

    更新日期:2004-10-14 00:00:00

  • Noise to order.

    abstract::Patterns in natural systems abound, from the stripes on a zebra to ripples in a riverbed. In many of these systems, the appearance of an ordered state is not unexpected as the outcome of an underlying ordered process. Thus crystal growth, honeycomb manufacture and floret evolution generate regular and predictable patt...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/35065689

    authors: Shinbrot T,Muzzio FJ

    更新日期:2001-03-08 00:00:00

  • Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India.

    abstract::Groundwater is a primary source of fresh water in many parts of the world. Some regions are becoming overly dependent on it, consuming groundwater faster than it is naturally replenished and causing water tables to decline unremittingly. Indirect evidence suggests that this is the case in northwest India, but there ha...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature08238

    authors: Rodell M,Velicogna I,Famiglietti JS

    更新日期:2009-08-20 00:00:00

  • Human herpesvirus KSHV encodes a constitutively active G-protein-coupled receptor linked to cell proliferation.

    abstract::Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV, also known as human herpesvirus 8, or HHV 8) is a virus that is consistently present in Kaposi's sarcoma and in primary-effusion (body-cavity-based) lymphomas, malignancies that occur frequently, but not exclusively, in AIDS patients. KSHV is a gamma herpesvirus with homo...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/385347a0

    authors: Arvanitakis L,Geras-Raaka E,Varma A,Gershengorn MC,Cesarman E

    更新日期:1997-01-23 00:00:00

  • Long terminal repeats of human T-cell leukaemia virus II genome determine target cell specificity.

    abstract::Human T-cell leukaemias and lymphomas associated with the human T-cell leukaemia viruses (HTLV) are invariably neoplasms of cells with mature T-lymphocyte phenotype. Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B- lymphoycte lines which are productively infected with HTLV may be isolated from patients with HTLV malignancies, but no...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/309276a0

    authors: Chen IS,McLaughlin J,Golde DW

    更新日期:1984-05-17 00:00:00

  • Visualizing transient events in amino-terminal autoprocessing of HIV-1 protease.

    abstract::HIV-1 protease processes the Gag and Gag-Pol polyproteins into mature structural and functional proteins, including itself, and is therefore indispensable for viral maturation. The mature protease is active only as a dimer with each subunit contributing catalytic residues. The full-length transframe region protease pr...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature07342

    authors: Tang C,Louis JM,Aniana A,Suh JY,Clore GM

    更新日期:2008-10-02 00:00:00

  • Control of somatic tissue differentiation by the long non-coding RNA TINCR.

    abstract::Several of the thousands of human long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been functionally characterized; however, potential roles for lncRNAs in somatic tissue differentiation remain poorly understood. Here we show that a 3.7-kilobase lncRNA, terminal differentiation-induced ncRNA (TINCR), controls human epidermal diffe...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature11661

    authors: Kretz M,Siprashvili Z,Chu C,Webster DE,Zehnder A,Qu K,Lee CS,Flockhart RJ,Groff AF,Chow J,Johnston D,Kim GE,Spitale RC,Flynn RA,Zheng GX,Aiyer S,Raj A,Rinn JL,Chang HY,Khavari PA

    更新日期:2013-01-10 00:00:00

  • Strontium isotopic resolution of magma dynamics in a layered intrusion.

    abstract::Kalka is one of about 14 major layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions forming the Giles Complex in central Australia1. The stratigraphical section of the Kalka Intrusion passes from a basal pyroxenite zone (450 + m) through norite and olivine gabbro zones (3,500 m) to an uppermost anorthosite zone (800 + m)2. Further res...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/294155a0

    authors: Gray CM,Goode ADT

    更新日期:1981-11-12 00:00:00

  • Disturbance and diversity in experimental microcosms.

    abstract::External agents of mortality (disturbances) occur over a wide range of scales of space and time, and are believed to have large effects on species diversity. The "intermediate disturbance hypothesis", which proposes maximum diversity at intermediate frequencies of disturbance, has received support from both field and ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/35050080

    authors: Buckling A,Kassen R,Bell G,Rainey PB

    更新日期:2000-12-21 00:00:00

  • Multiple specific contacts between a mammalian transcription factor and its cognate promoters.

    abstract::The human transcription factor Sp1 binds upstream of certain viral and cellular promoters and activates initiation of RNA synthesis from these promoters by RNA polymerase II. The Sp1 binding sites of both simian virus 40 and a related monkey promoter contain multiple copies of the sequence GGGCGG, three or four of the...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/312409a0

    authors: Gidoni D,Dynan WS,Tjian R

    更新日期:1984-11-29 00:00:00

  • Acidic deposition: decline in mobilization of toxic aluminium.

    abstract::The mobilization of aluminium from acidic forest soils is arguably the most ecologically important consequence of acid deposition in the environment because of its adverse effects on soils, forest vegetation and surface water. Here we show that there has been a significant decline in the concentrations of aluminium sp...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/417242a

    authors: Palmer SM,Driscoll CT

    更新日期:2002-05-16 00:00:00

  • Inhibition of BET recruitment to chromatin as an effective treatment for MLL-fusion leukaemia.

    abstract::Recurrent chromosomal translocations involving the mixed lineage leukaemia (MLL) gene initiate aggressive forms of leukaemia, which are often refractory to conventional therapies. Many MLL-fusion partners are members of the super elongation complex (SEC), a critical regulator of transcriptional elongation, suggesting ...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature10509

    authors: Dawson MA,Prinjha RK,Dittmann A,Giotopoulos G,Bantscheff M,Chan WI,Robson SC,Chung CW,Hopf C,Savitski MM,Huthmacher C,Gudgin E,Lugo D,Beinke S,Chapman TD,Roberts EJ,Soden PE,Auger KR,Mirguet O,Doehner K,Delwel R,

    更新日期:2011-10-02 00:00:00

  • Universal transduction scheme for nanomechanical systems based on dielectric forces.

    abstract::Any polarizable body placed in an inhomogeneous electric field experiences a dielectric force. This phenomenon is well known from the macroscopic world: a water jet is deflected when approached by a charged object. This fundamental mechanism is exploited in a variety of contexts-for example, trapping microscopic parti...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature07932

    authors: Unterreithmeier QP,Weig EM,Kotthaus JP

    更新日期:2009-04-23 00:00:00

  • Molecular analysis of spontaneous somatic mutants.

    abstract::Eukaryotic structural gene mutations occurring spontaneously in a mouse myeloma cell line offer the opportunity to study somatic mutation in animal cells at the molecular level. Studies on the myeloma protein and on mRNA have enabled us to characterise four such mutants representing four different mutation mechanisms....

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章,评审

    doi:10.1038/265299a0

    authors: Adetugbo K,Milstein C,Secher DS

    更新日期:1977-01-27 00:00:00

  • Water transport in plants obeys Murray's law.

    abstract::The optimal water transport system in plants should maximize hydraulic conductance (which is proportional to photosynthesis) for a given investment in transport tissue. To investigate how this optimum may be achieved, we have performed computer simulations of the hydraulic conductance of a branched transport system. H...

    journal_title:Nature

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1038/nature01444

    authors: McCulloh KA,Sperry JS,Adler FR

    更新日期:2003-02-27 00:00:00