Does intermediate spreading-rate oceanic crust result from episodic transition between magmatic and magma-dominated, faulting-enhanced spreading?—The Costa Rica Rift example

Does intermediate spreading-rate oceanic crust result from episodic transition between magmatic and magma-dominated, faulting-enhanced spreading?—The Costa Rica Rift example

SUMMARY Ocean-bottom seismograph and multichannel streamer wide-angle seismic data are jointly analysed and compared with reflection images, bathymetric maps and potential field data, to reveal the detailed structure of layer 2 of the oceanic crust formed at the intermediate spreading Costa Rica Rif...

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description SUMMARY Ocean-bottom seismograph and multichannel streamer wide-angle seismic data are jointly analysed and compared with reflection images, bathymetric maps and potential field data, to reveal the detailed structure of layer 2 of the oceanic crust formed at the intermediate spreading Costa Rica Rift (CRR). Separate modelling of each wide-angle data set independently reveals a gradual increase in P-wave velocity with distance (hence crustal age) from the ridge axis, with a model derived from their joint inversion, in turn, displaying a pattern of shorter-wavelength structural complexity in addition to a background flow-line trend. Normalizing against a ridge-located reference velocity–depth model reveals that, off-axis, velocity perturbations are correlated with trends in basement roughness and uplift; regions of rougher and uplifted basement correlate with slower layer 2 velocity,
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