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Journal Articles Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Year : 2020

Mariana serpentinite mud volcanism exhumes subducted seamount materials: implications for the origin of life

1 SOEST - School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
2 UAF - University of Alaska [Fairbanks]
3 International Ocean Discovery Program
4 School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Florida, Tampa, USA
5 NAWI Graz Geocentre
6 USU - Utah State University
7 University of Bremen
8 USGS - United States Geological Survey
9 CAM - University of Cambridge [UK]
10 School of Earth and Space Sciences [Hefei]
11 Second Institute of Oceanography
12 D-USYS - Department of Environmental Systems Science [ETH Zürich]
13 CSIRO Division of Petroleum Resources, Kensington, Australia
14 Department of Earth Sciences [Chiba]
15 The University of Tennessee [Knoxville]
16 IPMA - Instituto Português de Investigação do Mar e da Atmosfera
17 Oceanographic Institute
18 MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences [Bremen]
19 NOC - National Oceanography Centre [Southampton]
20 Graduate School of Environmental Studies [Nagoya]
21 WWU - Western Washington University
22 SIO - UC San Diego - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
23 SEES - School of Earth and Environmental Sciences [Seoul]
24 SUNY - State University of New York
25 IFPEN - IFP Energies nouvelles
26 Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research
27 JAMSTEC - Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
28 GeoRessources
29 State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science (Xiamen University)
30 NHM - The Natural History Museum [London]
31 National Academy of Sciences Washington
32 Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute [Fort Pierce]
Walter Kurz
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Baptiste Debret
Bastien Walter
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Abstract

The subduction of seamounts and ridge features at convergent plate boundaries plays an important role in the deformation of the overriding plate and influences geochemical cycling and associated biological processes. Active serpentinization of forearc mantle and serpentinite mud volcanism on the Mariana forearc (between the trench and active volcanic arc) provides windows on subduction processes.  Here, we present (1) the first observation of an extensive exposure of an undeformed Cretaceous seamount currently being subducted at the Mariana Trench inner slope; (2) vertical deformation of the forearc region related to subduction of Pacific Plate seamounts and thickened crust; (3) recovered Ocean Drilling Program and International Ocean Discovery Program cores of serpentinite mudflows that confirm exhumation of various Pacific Plate lithologies, including subducted reef limestone; (4) petrologic, geochemical and paleontological data from the cores that show that Pacific Plate seamount exhumation covers greater spatial and temporal extents; (5) the inference that microbial communities associated with serpentinite mud volcanism may also be exhumed from the subducted plate seafloor and/or seamounts; and (6) the implications for effects of these processes with regard to evolution of life. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Serpentine in the Earth system’.
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hal-02447698 , version 1 (23-01-2020)

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Patricia Fryer, C. Geoffrey Geoffrey Wheat, Trevor Williams, Christopher Kelley, Kevin Johnson, et al.. Mariana serpentinite mud volcanism exhumes subducted seamount materials: implications for the origin of life. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2020, 378 (2165), pp.20180425. ⟨10.1098/rsta.2018.0425⟩. ⟨hal-02447698⟩
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