Aqueous fluid inclusions in anhydrite that are frozen during microthermometry commonly develop new daughter crystals. Heating these inclusions induces the new daughter crystals to decompose. Repeated cycles of crystal ...
The Mathematician failed rift was a fast spreading oceanic ridge prior to abandonment about 6.5 Ma. but presently has the morphology of a slow spreading ridge crest. Dredges of its inner rift valley walls indicate that it ...