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	Metamorphism in oceanic layer 3, Gorringe Bank, Eastern Atlantic Catherine Mevel Laboratoire de p~trologie...Abstract. Gorringe Bank is an anomalously high structure of the eastern part of the north Atlantic, which...contact between layer 4 and layer 3 was observed on Mount Gettysburg and interpreted as tectonic. The overlying...both mounts composing the bank, Gettysburg and Ormonde. Coarse-grained to pegmatoid clinopyroxene gabbros...distinct events. Metamorphism occurred close to the ridge axis, from interaction of a seawater-derived fluid
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	obtained from the Iberia Abyssal Plain and from the Gorringe Bank, combined with those already known on the...zones were sampled along East-West transects of the ocean-continent transition, immediately West or at the...exposed at both the Iberia Abyssal Plain and the Gorringe Bank are clearly different. The presence of plagioclase-bearing...lower pressures ( _<0.6 GPa) registered in the Gorringe Bank gabbroic rocks and in some reexamined gabbros...Plain, transitional and depleted tholeiites at the Gorringe Bank. The trace elements and the isotope data
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Ilmenite from Mount Ormonde, Gorringe Ridge, Atlantic Ocean

Ilmenite from
Mount Ormonde, Gorringe Ridge, Atlantic Ocean