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The Vents Geology Program also has active research efforts in the volcanic arcs of the western Pacific. Other mid-ocean ridge study areas include the Vance and Cobb segments of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Explorer Ridge, the Blanco Fracture Zone, and the southern East Pacific Rise. We are also engaged in studies of volcanic systems on land that may be analogues to those on the mid-ocean ridge, including Hawaii and the Galapagos Islands.
References to selected published scientific papers: Chadwick, W. W., Jr., and J. H. Dieterich, Mechanical modeling of circumferential and radial diking on Galapagos volcanoes, J. Volcanol. Geotherm. Res., 66, 37-52, 1995. Dziak, R. P., C. G. Fox, R. W. Embley, J. E. Lupton, G. Johnson, W. W. Chadwick Jr., and R. A. Koski, Detection of and response to a probable volcanogenic T-wave event swarm on the western Blanco Transform Fault Zone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 873-876, 1996. Dziak, R. P., C. G. Fox, and R. W. Embley, Relationship between the seismicity and geologic structure of the Blanco Transform Fault Zone, Mar. Geophys. Res., 13, 203-208, 1991. Embley, R.W., and D.W. Wilson, Morphology of the Blanco Transform Fault Zone-NE Pacific, Implications for its tectonic evolution. Marine Geophysical Researches, 14, 25-45, 1992. Embley, R.W., S.L. Eittreim, C.H. McHugh, W.R. Normark, G.H. Rau, B. Hecker, A.E. DeBevoise, H.G. Greene, W.B.F. Ryan, C. Harrold, and C. Baxter, Geological setting of chemosynthetic communities in the Monterey Fan Valley system, Deep-Sea Research, 37(11), 1651-1667, 1990. Embley, R.W., L.D. Kulm, G. Massoth, D. Abbott, and M. Holmes, Morphology, structure, and resource potential of the Blanco transform fault zone, Geology and Resource Potential of the Continental Margin of Western North America and Adjacent Ocean Basins--Beaufort Sea to Baja, California, D.W. Scholl, A. Grantz, and J.G. Vedder (eds.), Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Sciences Series, Vol. 6, 549-561, 1988. Embley, R.W., A locally formed deep ocean canyon system along the Blanco Transform, Northeast Pacific, Geo-Marine Letters, 5, 99-104, 1985. Embley, R.W., I.R. Jonasson, M.R. Perfit, J.M. Franklin, M.A. Tivey, A. Malahoff, M.F. Smith, and T.J.G. Francis, Submersible investigation of an extinct hydrothermal system on the Galapagos Ridge: Sulfide mounds, stockwork zone, and differentiated lavas, Canadian Mineralogist, 26, 517-539, 1988. Fornari, D. J., and R. W. Embley, Tectonic and volcanic controls on hydrothermal processes at the mid-ocean ridge: An overview based on near-bottom and submersible studies, in Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems: Physical, Chemical, Biological, and Geological Interactions, edited by S. E. Humphris, R. A. Zierenberg, L. S. Mullineaux, and R. E. Thomson, Geophys. Monograph 91, 1-46, 1995. Gregg, T. K. P., and W. W. Chadwick Jr., Submarine lava-flow inflation: A model for the formation of lava pillars, Geology, 24(11), 981-984, 1996. Moore, J. G., and W. W. Chadwick Jr., Offshore geology of Mauna Loa and adjacent areas, Hawaii, in Mauna Loa Revealed: Structure, Composition, History and Hazards, edited by J. M. Rhodes, and J. P. Lockwood, Geophys. Monograph 92, 21-44, 1995.
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