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Recent Publications: Caribbean Basin and North American-Caribbean Plate Boundary

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Connelly, D., J T. Copley, B J. Murton, K. Stansfield, P. A. Tyler, C. R. German, C. L. Van Dover, D. Amon, M. Furlong, N. Grindlay and 16 others, 2012, Hydrothermal vent fields and chemosynthetic biota on the world's deepest seafloor spreading centre, Nature Communications, 3, Article number: 620, doi:10.1038/ncomms1636.

Hayman, N., N.R. Grindlay, M. Perfit, P. Mann, S. Leroy and B. Mercier de Lepinay, 2011, Oceanic core complex development at the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Spreading Center, Geochemistry, Geophysics Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2010GC003240.

Mondziel, S.*, N. R. Grindlay, P. Mann, A. Escolona, and L.J. Abrams, 2010, Morphology, structure and tectonic evolution of Mona Canyon (northern Mona Passage) from multibeam bathymetry, sidescan sonar and seismic reflection profiles, Tectonics, 29, TC2003, doi:10.1029/2008TC002441.

Hornbach, MJ, Mondziel, S.A.*, Grindlay, N.R., Frolich, C. and Mann, P., 2008, Did a submarine slide trigger the 1918 Puerto Rico tsunami? Science of Tsunami Hazards, 27, 22-31.

Grindlay, N.R., M. Hearne*, and P. Mann, 2005, A High Risk of Tsunami in the Northern Caribbean, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(12), 121.

Grindlay. N.R., P. Mann, J.F. Dolan and J-P van Gestel, 2005,Neotectonics and subsidence of the northern Puerto Rico-Virgin Island smargin in response to the oblique subduction of high-standing ridges, GSA Special Paper 385, " Active tectonics and seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas", ed. P. Mann , 31-60.

Hippolyte, JC, P. Mann and N.R. Grindlay, 2005, Geologic evidence for the prolongation of active normal faults of the Mona Rift into northwestern Puerto Rico, GSA Special Paper 385, "Active tectonics and seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas", ed P. Mann , 161-172.

Grindlay, N.R., L. Abrams, L. DelGreco* and P. Mann, 2005,Towards an integrated understanding of Holocene fault activity in western Puerto Rico: Constraints from high-resolution seismic and sidescan soanr data, GSA Special Paper 385, "Active tectonics and seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas", ed. P. Mann , 139-160.

Mann, P., Prentice, C., Hippolyte, J-C, N.R. Grindlay, L. Abrams, and Daniel Lao-Davila, 2005, Reconnaissance study of Late Quaternary faulting along the La Cadena de San Francisco mountain front (Cerro Goden fault zone), western Puerto Rico, GSA Special paper 385, "Active tectonics and seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas", ed P. Mann, 115-138.

Mann, P., Jean-Claude Hippolyte, N.R. Grindlay, and L. Abrams, 2005, Neotectonics of southern Puerto Rico and its offshore margin, GSA Special Paper 385,"Active tectonics and seismic hazards of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and offshore areas", ed. P. Mann, 173-214.

Abrams, L. J. and M. Hu*, 2000, Synthetic seismograms from physical properties and downhole logging measurements at ODP site 999, Colombia Basin Proc. Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, 165, College Station,TX, p. 219-224.

Rohl, U. and L. J. Abrams, 2000, High-resolution, non-destructive core and downhole measurements across critical paleoceaographic boundaries recovered in the Caribbean Sea, Proc. Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, 165 , 191-204.

Van Gestal, J.P., P. Mann, N.R. Grindlay and J. Dolan, 1999, Three-phase tectonic evolution of the northern margin of Puerto Rico as inferred from an integration of seismic reflection, well and outcrop data, Marine Geology, 161, 259-288.

Muszala, S., N.R. Grindlay, and R.T. Bird, 1999, Three-Dimensional Euler deconvolution and tectonic interpretation of marine magnetic anomaly data in the Puerto Rico Trench, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 29,175-29,187.

Mann, P., N. Grindlay, and J. Dolan, 1999, Subduction to strike-slip transitions on plate boundaries, Penrose Conference Report, GSA Today, 9, 14-16

Diebold, J., N. Driscoll, L. J. Abrams, P. Buhl, T. Donnelly, E. Laine, S. Leroy, and A. Toy, 1999, New insights on the formation of the Caribbean Basalt Province revealed by multichannel seismic images of volcanic structures in the Venezuelan Basin, In Mann, P. editor, Sedimentary Basins of the World, 4, Caribbean Sedimentary Basins, Elsevier, p. 561-590.

Van Gestal, J.P., P. Mann, J. Dolan and N.R. Grindlay, 1998, Structure and tectonics of the Upper Cenozoic Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands carbonate platform as determined from seismic reflection studies, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 30,505-30,530.

Grindlay, N.R.,P. Mann, and J. Dolan, 1997, Researchers investigate submarine faults north of Puerto Rico, Eos Trans. AGU., 78, No 38, 404.

Recent Publications: Southwest Indian Ridge

Takeuchi, C, J. Sclater, N.R. Grindlay, J. Madsen and C. Rommevaux-Jestin, 2010. Segment-scale and Intra-segment Melt Supply Variations Near the Andrew Bain Mega-Transform Fault and Marion Hotspot: The Southwest Indian Ridge 25°-35°E, Geochemistry, Geophysics Geosystems, 11, 7, Q07012, doi:10.1029/2010GC003054, 27p.

Peyve AA , Skolotnev SG , Ligi M , Turko NN , Bonatti E , Kolodyazhnyi SY , Chamov NP , Tsukanov NV , Baramykov YE , Eskin AE , Grindlay N , Sclater JG , Brunelly D , Pertsev AN , Cipriani A, Bortoluzzi G , Mercuri R , Paganelli E , Muccini F , Takeuchi C , Zaffagnini F , Dobrolyubova KO, 2007, Investigation of the Andrew Bain transform fault zone (African-Antarctic region), Doklady Earth Sciences, 416, 991-994

Sclater, J. G., N.R. Grindlay, J.A. Madsen and C. Rommevaux-Jestin, 2005, The Andrew Bain Transform fault, Southwest Indian Ocean,Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems, 6, Q09K10, doi:10.1029/2005GC000951.

D. Sauter, Ph. Patriat, C. Rommevaus-Jestin, M. Cannat, A. Briais, H, Bergh, D. Boulanger, C. Deplus , N. Grindlay, and 8 others, 2001, The Southwest Indian Ridge between 49º15'E and 57ºE: focused accretion and magma redistribution, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 192 , 303-317.

Grindlay, N.R., J. Madsen, C. Rommevaux-Jestin and J. Sclater, 1998, A different pattern of ridge segmentation and mantle Bouguer gravity anomalies along the ultra-slow spreading Southwest Indian Ridge, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 161, 243-253.

Grindlay, N. R., J. Madsen, C. Rommevaux, J. Sclater and S. Murphy, 1996, Southwest Indian Ridge 15°E-35°E: A geophysical investigation of an ultra-slow spreading mid-ocean ridge system, InterRidge News, 5, 7-12.

Recent Publications: Tongareva Triple Junction

Pockalny, R.A., R.L. Larson, R.F. Viso, and L.J. Abrams , 2002, Bathymetry and gravity profiles across a Mid-Cretaceous triple junction trace in the southwest Pacific Ocean: Implications for accretion of oceanic crust, Geophys., Res., Lett., 29, 1-4.

Larson, R.L., R.A. Pockalny, R.F. Viso, E. Erba, L.J. Abrams , B.P. Luyendyk, J.M. Stock, and R.W. Clayton, 2002, Mid-Cretaceous tectonic evolution of the Tongareva triple junction in the southwestern Pacific basin, Geology, 30, 67-70.

Recent Publications: ODP Leg 185, Geochemical Recycling at the Izu-Bonin Trench

Jarrard, R. D., L.J. Abrams, R. Pockalny, R.L. Larson, and T. Hirono, 2003, Physical Properties of Upper Oceanic Crust: ODP Hole 801C and the Waning of Hydrothermal Circulation, J. Geophys. Res., 108(B4), 2188,doi:10.1029/2001JB001727, pdf file.

Abrams, L. J. , 2002, Correlation Between Core, Logging and Seismic Data at Site 1149 in the Nadezda Basin, Proc. Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, 185 , College Station,TX, online.

Hirono, T., and L.J. Abrams, 2002, Data Report: Electrical Resistivity and X-ray CT Measurements of Sedimentary and Igneous Units from Hole 801C and Site 1149, Proc. Ocean Drilling Program Scientific Results, 185, College Station,TX, online.

Recent Publications: South Pacific

D'Hondt, S., A. Spivack, R, Pockalny, T. Ferdelman, J. Fischer, J. Kallmeyer, L.J. Abrams, D.C. Smith, D. Graham, F. Hasiuk, J. Rogers, H. Schrum and A. Stancin, 2009, Subseafloor sedimentary life in the South Pacific gyre, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106(28), 11651-11656.

Recent Publications: Tambora Volcano

Abrams, L. J., and H. Sigurdsson, 2007, Characterization of pyroclastic fall and flow deposits from the 1815 eruption of Tambora volcano, Indonesia using ground-penetrating radar, J. Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 161, 352-361.
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