Collaborative Research: Constraining Mantle Flow, Melt Supply, and Lower Crustal Structure Between the Clipperton and Siqueiros Fracture Zones from a Seismic Undershoot Experiment

洋中脊动力学长期存在的争议是，快速扩张脊下的上涌是片状的，沿着轴向相对均匀的岩浆供应，还是更三维的，在浅岩浆房水平和/或下地壳，韧性流动的熔体沿着轴向横向再分配的板块中心附近的底辟状上涌。 UNDERSHOOT实验旨在通过绘制西凯罗斯和克利珀顿断裂带之间东太平洋海隆转换边界段整个长度上从地幔到地壳沿着的岩浆输送模式来解决这个问题。 数据的质量仍然是值得进一步分析的重要问题。 地壳厚度模型将通过采用改进的算法进行完善，使实验中收集的所有数据能够同时建模。 将提高对莫霍面转换和上地幔性质的认识。 将开发地幔和下地壳低速带结构沿着轴向变化的改进模型。

A long-standing controversy in mid-ocean ridge dynamics is whether upwelling beneath fast spreading ridges is sheet-like with a relatively uniform magma supply along axis, or more three-dimensional with diapiric-like upwelling near segment centers and lateral redistribution of melt along axis at shallow magma chamber levels and/or by lower crustal, ductile flow. The UNDERSHOOT experiment was designed to address this problem by mapping the pattern of magma delivery from the mantle to the crust along the entire length of a transform bounded segment of the East Pacific Rise between the Siqueiros and Clipperton fracture zones. The quality of the data are the important issues that remain warrant further analyses. Models of crustal thickness will be refined by employing improved algorithms that allow all data collected in the experiment to be modeled simultaneously. Understanding of the properties of the Moho transition and uppermost mantle will be improved. Improved models of along axis variations in the structure of the mantle and lower crust low velocity zones will be developed.