* Corresponding author 16 Dr. Gary A. Dykes 17 Food Science Australia 18 PO Box 3312 19 Tingalpa DC, Queensland, 4173, Australia 20 Phone: +61 7 3214 2037 21 Fax: +61 7 3214 2150 22 Email: [email protected] 23 AC CE P ED Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology and/or the Listed Authors/Institutions. All Rights Reserved. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. doi:10.1128/AEM.02232-08 AEM Accept...

This paper reviews the literature on dyking as a mechanism of felsic magma extraction from a source and transport to shallower crustal levels, and review the recent literature suggesting a range of alternative mechanisms of magma migration in hot crustal zones which produce mesoscale pervasive granite sheet intrusions. Recent papers have strongly favoured dyking as the main mechanism controllin...

[1] The uppermost 2 km of oceanic crust created near the southern end of the Juan de Fuca Ridge ( 60 mm/yr, full spreading rate) is exposed in a ‘‘tectonic window’’ created along the north wall of the Blanco Transform Fault. A total of 27 submersible dives transect this escarpment over a distance of >30 km, corresponding to 1 m.y. of spreading history. In this exposure, weakly deformed basaltic...

Troodos is a classical ophiolite complex. It is proposed that the serpentinized harzburgites that now form the top of the mountain and represent the originally lowest part of the ophiolite sequence rose as a diapir. This diapiric rise is caused by the pervasive serpentinization of a suboceanic harzburgite, due to rock-sea water interaction. The serpentinization caused a 44% expansion of the roc...

The major and trace element characteristics of the clinopyroxene from two generations dykes, dolerite olivine dykes Western Dharwar Craton were investigated by using electron microprobe LA–ICPMS. in show a compositional zoning with Mg# decreasing core to rim (85 51) Cr2O3 contents decrease towards rim. rare earth (REE) pattern shows lower concentrations REEs compared dolerites are devoid compos...

The Sungun Cu-Mo porphyry deposit forms part of the Ahar–Arasbaran Magmatic Belt (AAMB). Its host Miocene stock is quartz monzonitic in composition and cut by intermediate dykes that post-date mineralization. These contain pyroxene enclaves ambiguous origin. Dykes microdiorite are observed within diorite dykes, whereas later three different kinds (diorite, hornfels) sizes between 1 10 cm. Encla...

S U M M A R Y In the early stages of continental rifting, extension takes place by normal faulting, while in mature continental rifts dyke intrusion dominates. Little is known about the nature of the transition between fault-controlled and dyke-controlled extension or about the processes in an intermediate setting. Here, we present observations of the temporal and spatial evolution of surface d...