A Study of the Magma Chamber Depths Along the Reykjanes Ridge
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2012-03
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The Ohio State University
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The research conducted determined the depth of the magma chambers along the Reykjanes ridge. The magma that is being ejected from the chambers along the Reykjanes ridge contains elements important to determining the depth of the chambers, such as MgO, Fe2O3, and CaO. These elements are characteristic of certain minerals that crystallize during the cooling of the magma. By determining when and specifically what minerals begin to crystallize it will then be able to be determined at what average depth the chamber is located, along the ridge. This research is being done because there has not been significant research along the Reykjanes ridge. The research was conducted by gathering the data from other papers, and a public database website, it was then placed into an excel spreadsheet and was graphed by using a computer program called CoHort. Once the graphs were created and interpreted, the pressures were calculated using an excel spreadsheet that was created for this specific reason. Looking at the Cohort graphs and interpreting the trends it could be seen at what rate and pressure the specific minerals were crystallizing during the cooling of the magma along the Reykjanes ridge.
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Reykjanes Ridge, Magma Chamber Depths, Mid-ocean ridges, Atlantic Ocean