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Temporal variability and tidal modulation of hydrothermal exit−fluid temperatures at the Lucky Strike deep−sea vent field, Mid−Atlantic Ridge,

Thibault Barreyre
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Javier Escartin
Rob Sohn
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Mathilde Cannat
Valérie Ballu
Wayne Crawford

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We deployed autonomous temperature sensors at black smoker chimneys, cracks, and diffuse flow areas at the Lucky Strike hydrothermal field (Mid-Atlantic Ridge,~37°17'N) between summer 2009 and summer 2012 and contemporaneously measured tidal pressures and currents as part of the long-term MoMAR experiment to monitor hydrothermal activity. We classify the temperature data according to the hydrogeologic setting of the measurement sites: a high-temperature regime (>190°C) representing discharge of essentially unmixed, primary hydrothermal fluids through chimneys, an intermediate-temperature regime (10-100°C) associated with mixing of primary fluids with cold pore fluids discharging through cracks, and a low-temperature regime (<10°C) associated with a thermal boundary layer forming over bacterial mats associated with diffuse outflow of warm fluids. Temperature records from all the regimes exhibit variations at semi-diurnal tidal periods, and cross-spectral analyses reveal that high-temperature discharge correlates to tidal pressure while low-temperature discharge correlates to tidal currents. Intermediate-temperature discharge exhibits a transitional behavior correlating to both tidal pressure and currents. Episodic perturbations, with transient temperature drops of up to~150°C, which occur in the high-temperature and intermediate-temperature records, are not observed on multiple probes (including nearby probes at the same site), and they are not correlated with microearthquake activity, indicating that the perturbation mechanism is highly localized at the measurement sites within the hydrothermal structures. The average temperature at a given site may increase or decrease at annual time scales, but the average temperature of the hydrothermal field, as a whole, appears to be stable over our 3 year observation period.
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hal-01257956 , version 1 (21-08-2020)

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Thibault Barreyre, Javier Escartin, Rob Sohn, Mathilde Cannat, Valérie Ballu, et al.. Temporal variability and tidal modulation of hydrothermal exit−fluid temperatures at the Lucky Strike deep−sea vent field, Mid−Atlantic Ridge,. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2014, 119 (4), pp.2543-2566. ⟨10.1002/2013JB010478⟩. ⟨hal-01257956⟩
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