Marine Geoscience Data System
EW9102 Seismic Reflection/Refraction
Seismic:Reflection:MCS
Processed multichannel seismic data along the East Pacific Rise south of Garrett Fracture Zone, acquired during the R/V Maurice Ewing survey EW9102 (1991)
This Two-ship Experiment on a Ridge Axis (TERA) provided the first detailed geophysical constraints on the crustal structure along the East Pacific Rise south of the Garrett fracture zone, a major focus of the RIDGE initiative. The R/V Maurice Ewing< and Thomas Washington (TERA01WT) were to collect three types of data: (1) 20 closely-space, single-ship multichannel seismic reflection profiles along the EPR; (2) 25 two-ship expanding spread profiles along and parallel to the rise axis in this same area; and (3) a 700-km-long multichanel seismic reflection profile along the EPR from the Garrett fracture zone to the large overlapping spreading center at 20.5S. The objectives were to use these data to test the spreading rate dependence of magma chamber size; to examine the relationship between crustal magma chambers and along-axis changes in morphology, segmentation and basalt geochemistry; and to resolve better how the first-order seismic structure of oceanic crust, including Moho and seismic layer 3, developed during the first few hundred thousand years after crustal formation. Funded by NSF grants OCE90-12707, OCE90-12781, OCE90-12596, and OCE91-02899.
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Seismic:MCS
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Maurice Ewing (Array)
LDEO
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2
The data have been processed/modified to a level beyond that of basic quality control (e.g. final processed sonar data, photo-mosaics).

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