THE DEEP STRUCTURE OF AXIAL VOLCANO

Michael West1
William Menke1, Maya Tolstoy1
Spahr Webb1, Rob Sohn2

1LDEO 2WHOI



Thesis, defended June 4, 2001
Final draft of thesis as submitted to Columbia University (pdf, 11.4 Mb)
Defense presentation slides (pdf, 8.3 Mb)
Magma storage beneath Axial volcano on the Juan de Fuca mid-ocean ridge
Nature, West M., W. Menke, M. Tolstoy, S. Webb, R. Sohn, 43, p. 833-836 Oct. 25, 2001.







PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Structure
isosurface plots
iteration statistics
Anomaly footprint analysis
Tolstoy's 1994 hypocenters
High velocity "curtain" around magma body
Background
map archive
selected figures
selected photos
Navigation tracks
Bathymetry finder
XY coordinate finder
Method
OBS relocation procedure
Conversion from Webb format to AH
selected record sections
List of accurate data/corruptions
Record section gallery
high res./near offset traces
project proposal
Links
Menke's pics
Tolstoy's 94 Axial ex.
PMEL/NOAA Geophysics
RIDGE multibeam synthesis
Fire 2 paper (Iceland)
CoAxial images (RIDGE MSP)