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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024

Seafloor spreading on Short And Long Time scales

Seafloor spreading is the process that single-handedly shapes 2/3 of our planet, modulates the dynamics of deep ocean currents, controls the composition of seawater, and supports unique ecosystems that thrive in extreme environments. Discovered in the 1960s, it is now explained as the slow and steady divergence of 2 tectonic plates accommodated by magma emplacement and faulting at a mid-ocean ridge axis. In the current paradigm, the texture of the seafloor is primarily determined by the magmatically-accommodated fraction (M) of plate separation at the ridge axis. However, we do not know what sets the M fraction in the first place, and why it is subject to spatiotemporal fluctuations that…

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