Mid-Ocean Ridges: Hydrothermal Interactions Between the Lithosphere and Oceans (Geophysical Monograph Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875904130 ISBN 13: 9780875904139

Publisher: American Geophysical Union, 2004

Synopsis

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 148.

Mid-ocean ridges play an important role in the plate-tectonic cycle of our planet. Extending some 50–60,000 km across the ocean-floor, the global mid-ocean ridge system is the site of creation of the oceanic crust and lithosphere that covers more than two thirds of the Earth's exterior. Approximately 75% of Earth's total heat flux occurs through oceanic crust, much of it at mid-ocean ridges through complex processes associated with magma solidification, heat transfer, and cooling of young oceanic lithosphere. While the majority of this heat loss occurs through conduction, approximately one third of the total heat loss at mid-ocean ridges is influenced by a convective process: hydrothermal circulation.

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About the Author

Christopher R. German, PhD. Senior Scientist, Geology and Geophysics Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Chris German is a UK native who grew up in Rochester, England, where the two preceding generations of his family had worked in the local Naval Dockyard.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Geophysical Union
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875904130
• ISBN 13: 9780875904139
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: German Christopher R., Lin Jian, Parson Lindsay M.