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  • Technical Report
    Report of a workshop on technical approaches to construction of a seafloor geomagnetic observatory
    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1995-09) Chave, Alan D. ; Green, Arthur W. ; Filloux, Jean H. ; Law, Lawrie K. ; Petitt, Robert A. ; Rasson, Jean L. ; Schultz, Adam ; Spiess, Fred N. ; Tarits, Pascal ; Tivey, Maurice A. ; Webb, Spahr C.
    This report considers the technical issues on sensors, data recording and transmission, control and timing, power, and packaging associated with constricting a seafloor geomagnetic observatory. Existing technologies either already in use for oceanographic purposes or adapted from terrestral geomagnetic observatories could be applied to measure the vector magnetic field components and absolute intensity with minimal development. The major technical challenge arises in measuring absolute direction on the seafloor because terrestral techniques are not transferrable to the deep ocean. Two solutions to this problem were identified. The first requires the development of an instrument which measures the instantaneous declination and inclination of the magnetic field relative to a north-seeking gyroscope and the local vertical. The second is a straightforward extension of a precision acoustic method for determining absolute position on the seafloor.
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    Electrical structure beneath the northern MELT line on the East Pacific Rise at 15°45′S
    (American Geophysical Union, 2006-11-16) Baba, Kiyoshi ; Tarits, Pascal ; Chave, Alan D. ; Evans, Rob L. ; Hirth, Greg ; Mackie, Randall L.
    The electrical structure of the upper mantle beneath the East Pacific Rise (EPR) at 15°45′S is imaged by inverting seafloor magnetotelluric data obtained during the Mantle ELectromagnetic and Tomography (MELT) experiment. The electrical conductivity model shows no evidence for a conductive region immediately beneath the ridge, in contrast to the model previously obtained beneath the EPR at 17°S. This observation can be explained by differences in current melt production along the ridge, consistent with other observations. The mantle to the east of the ridge at 60 –100 km depth is anisotropic, with higher conductivity in the spreading direction compared to the along-strike direction, similar to the 17°S region. The high conductivity in the spreading direction can be explained by a hydrated mantle with strain-induced lattice preferred orientation of olivine or by partial melt preferentially connected in the spreading direction.