The Atlantis Massif is an oceanic core complex, a portion of lower crustal gabbroic rocks and peridotite mantle rocks uplifted during faulting of the seafloor (e.g. Ildefonse et al., 2007) that formed ...

The scene was like something out of a 19th-century adventure book. French geologist Rémi Coltat recalls setting out from the ...

One of these areas is an underwater mountain located called Atlantis Massif, located near a volcanically active region of the mid-Atlantic ridge. Continuously surfacing and melting parts of the ...

Tracking the thermal and petrologic evolution of magmatically robust fast spread lower ocean crust The four-dimensional development of lower oceanic crust: Integrated zircon trace element and high ...

and the Atlantis Massif, 15 km from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. These 3 sites are focused around the theme of low-temperature “Serpentinization”. RPL NAI members are also conducting fieldwork in other ...