{"id":709,"date":"2019-05-30T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/?page_id=709"},"modified":"2019-05-30T15:50:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:50:38","slug":"sustained-volcanically-hosted-venting-at-ultraslow-ridges-piccard-hydrothermal-field-mid-cayman-rise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/pubs\/peer-reviewed-journal-articles\/sustained-volcanically-hosted-venting-at-ultraslow-ridges-piccard-hydrothermal-field-mid-cayman-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustained volcanically-hosted venting at ultraslow ridges: Piccard Hydrothermal Field, Mid-Cayman Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h1>Sustained volcanically-hosted venting at ultraslow ridges: Piccard Hydrothermal Field, Mid-Cayman Rise<\/h1>\n<h3>Kinsey, J. C. &amp; German, C. R. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013, 380, 162 &#8211; 168<\/h3>\n<p>At slow spreading mid-ocean ridges sustained submarine venting and the deposition of large seafloor massive sulfide deposits have previously been ascribed to\u00a0<em>tectonically-controlled<\/em>\u00a0hydrothermal circulation unrelated to young volcanic activity. Here, by contrast, we show that the Piccard Hydrothermal Field (PHF), on the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Rise, represents a site of sustained fluid flow and sulfide formation hosted in a\u00a0<em>neovolcanic<\/em>\u00a0setting. The lateral extent and apparent longevity associated with the PHF are comparable to some of the largest tectonically-hosted vent sites known along the slow-spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge. If such systems recur along all ultraslow ridges, which comprise \u223c20% of the \u223c55,000 km global ridge crest, potential implications would include (i) a higher probability of locating large, economically valuable, mineral deposits along ultraslow ridges together with (ii) larger fluxes than previously anticipated of chemicals released from high-temperature venting entering the oceans along the Atlantic\u2013Indian Ocean sectors of the deep-ocean thermohaline conveyor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustained volcanically-hosted venting at ultraslow ridges: Piccard Hydrothermal Field, Mid-Cayman Rise Kinsey, J. C. &amp; German, C. R. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013, 380, 162 &#8211; 168 At slow spreading mid-ocean ridges sustained submarine venting and the deposition of large seafloor massive sulfide deposits have previously been ascribed to\u00a0tectonically-controlled\u00a0hydrothermal circulation unrelated to young volcanic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":659,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/709\/revisions\/724"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/jameskinsey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}