Morgan, Julia K.; Milliken, Kitty L. (1996): Petrography of calcite veins in serpentinized peridotite basement rocks from the Iberia abyssal plain, sites 897 and 899; kinematic and environmental implications. Texas A&M University, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, United States, In: Whitmarsh, Robert B., Sawyer, Dale S., Klaus, Adam, Beslier, Marie-Odile, Collins, Eric S., Comas, Maria Carmen, Cornen, Guy, de Kaenel, Eric, Pinheiro, Luis de Menezes, Gervais, Elisabeth, Gibson, Ian L., Harry, Dennis L., Hobart, Michael A., Kanamatsu, Toshiya, Krawcyzk, Charlotte M., Liu, Li, Lofts, Jeremy C., Marsaglia, Kathleen M., Meyers, Philip A., Milkert, Doris, Milliken, Kitty L., Morgan, Julia K., Ramirez, Pedro, Seifert, Karl E., Shaw, Timothy J., Wilson, Chris, Yin, Chuan, Zhao, Xixi, Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program; scientific results, Iberia abyssal plain; covering Leg 149 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel JOIDES Resolution; Balboa Harbor, Panama, to Lisbon, Portugal; sites 897-901, 10 March-25 May 1993, 149, 559-569, georefid:2007-088115

Abstract:
Calcite veins recovered from serpentinized peridotite and serpentinite breccia basement rocks at Sites 897 and 899 reveal a complex history of fracturing and carbonate precipitation in an extensional environment related to the rifting of the North Atlantic. Crosscutting and textural relationships among the veins suggest a progression of carbonate vein-filling events in open fractures, involving the growth of acicular aragonite, subsequently altered mostly to calcite, followed by the precipitation of botryoidal, fibrous calcite, and finally by highly zoned, sparry calcite. The morphological progression may arise from changes in carbonate precipitation rate, possibly associated with temporal variations in vein width. At Site 897 (and rarely at Site 899), this sequence is crosscut by micrite-filled veins resembling neptunian fractures, composed of remobilized calcite, oxides, and serpentinite fragments, which may be derived from the in situ brecciation of the wall rock. The vein complexes, and complicated cracking, resealing, and crosscutting textures, are probably the result of a series of discrete, brittle dilational events associated with the late stages of uplift and exposure of serpentinized peridotite basement at the seafloor. The final fracture event, producing the micrite-filled veins, may have resulted from gravitational collapse of the uplifted blocks, perhaps culminating locally in complete brecciation and subsequent mass flow.
Coverage:
West: -12.2847 East: -12.1604 North: 40.5019 South: 40.4622
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Expedition: 149
Site: 149-897
Site: 149-899
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Provider: SEDIS Publication Catalogue
Data set link: http://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/index.php?id=10.2973/odp.proc.sr.149.230.1996 (c.f. for more detailed metadata)
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