Representatives from the OSCAR project attended the Third InterRidge Theoretical Institute in Hangzhou, China last week. There were many enthusiastic speakers covering a diverse range of topics from hydrothermal circulation and melt plumbing to complex ridge-transform evolution.
Richard outlined our ultimate goal of better understanding the heat and mass flux between the solid Earth and the abyssal ocean. Preliminary results on crustal structure from the Costa Rica Rift to borehole 504B (Dean), crustal anisotopy at borehole 504B (Emma) and tectonic and magmatic features near the ridge axis (Gavin) were also presented on posters. Congratulations to Emma for winning one of the three student prizes for an outstanding poster.
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