An oceanic core complex, or megamullion, is a seabed geologic feature that forms a long ridge perpendicular to a mid-ocean ridge. It contains smooth domes...

collaboration among the Earth sciences. Scientific ocean drilling began in 1961 with the first sample of oceanic crust recovered aboard the CUSS 1, a modified...

metamorphic core complex. This could be the largest metamorphic core complex in the solar system. Northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex Oceanic core complex...

an exposed ultramafic oceanic core complex. An expedition to the area in 1996 made an important advance in the study of the ocean floor. It found that...

romanized: Gojira megamurion) is an undersea Japanese megamullion, or oceanic core complex, 600 kilometres (370 mi) south-east of the island of Okinotorishima...

These detachment faults are associated with the development of oceanic core complex structures. Continental detachment faults are also called décollements...

significantly different. The Atlantis Massif is described as an ultramafic oceanic core complex of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, with upper mantle rock being exposed to...

settings, either during seafloor spreading during the formation of oceanic core complexes, or during the rifting apart of continental crust during break-up...

(Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 30°N): Implications for the evolution of an ultramafic oceanic core complex". Marine Geophysical Researches. 23 (5): 443–469. Bibcode:2002MarGR...

Ridge (MAR). It lies just to the north of the Kane Megamullion, an oceanic core complex that forms the footwall of a long-lived low-angle detachment fault...

Grindlay N.R.; Perfit M.R.; Mann P.; Leroy S.; de Lépinay B.M. (2011). "Oceanic core complex development at the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Spreading Center"...

research on seamount morphology and origin, the geodynamics of oceanic core complexes, and ultra-slow rates in seafloor spreading. He served from 1984...

where the crust is particularly thin due to the formation of an oceanic core complex. Expedition 360 completed 790 meters of drilling and IODP plans to...

Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of the tectonic plates. It is composed of the upper oceanic crust, with pillow lavas and a...

crust can form an integral part of metamorphic core complexes, which are found on both continental and oceanic crust. The term "tilted block faulting" is...

with possible emplacement of metamorphic core complexes in continental rift zones but oceanic core complexes in spreading ridges. This leads to a kind...

Ridge (previously the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge), where the Mohns and Knipovich ridges converge. Ocean core complexes are found to the northwest. The field...

and topographic elements. Oceanic core complex – A seabed geologic feature that forms a long ridge perpendicular to a mid-ocean ridge Overlapping spreading...

Earth's inner core is the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth. It is primarily a solid ball with a radius of about 1,220 km (760 mi), which is...

year. Von Damm is of particular interest due to its location atop an ocean core complex associated with the Mid-Cayman spreading center. This exposes potential...

from the original on 2 February 2016, retrieved 1 February 2016 Oceanic core complexes along the Parece Vela Rift (PDF), archived from the original (PDF)...

Barbara. "Ultra Slow Spreading Ridges and Oceanic Core Complexes: Big Mountains and Bigger Faults". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved...

begins to plunge downwards is marked by an oceanic trench. Oceanic trenches are the deepest parts of the ocean floor. Beyond the trench is the forearc portion...

fronts, where oceanic crust is being pushed down into the mantle by an overriding plate of oceanic or continental crust. When a plate of oceanic crust is subducted...

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about 85,133,000 km2 (32,870,000 sq mi). It covers approximately...

Liverpool and New York with six nearly identical ships, known as the Oceanic class: Oceanic, Atlantic, Baltic and Republic, followed by the slightly larger...

megamullions or oceanic core complexes measure 25 km (16 mi) along-axis and 10–15 km (6.2–9.3 mi) across. When found along other mid-ocean ridges such structures...

Program. The value to oceanic and other geologic history of obtaining cores over a wide area of sea floors soon became apparent. Core sampling by many scientific...

Earth's surface Mid-ocean ridge, also known as Oceanic ridge – Basaltic underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonic spreading Oceanic trench – Long...

Mountains are an example of a metamorphic core complex that formed during the Cretaceous-Paleogene time when the oceanic Farallon Plate was subducting underneath...