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Authors Title Journal Year
Aggrey, K. E., D. W. Muenow, et al., Volatile abundances in submarine glasses from the North Fiji and Lau back-arc basins Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 1988
Allan, J. F. Cr-spinel in depleted basalts from the Lau Basin backarc, ODP Leg 135; petrogenetic history from Mg-Fe crystal-liquid exchange Proc. ODP Sci. Results 1994
Antoine, E., V. Cilia, et al., Thermosipho melanesiensis sp. nov., a new thermophilic anaerobic bacterium belonging to the order Thermotogales, isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean Int J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997
Asimow, P. D., Langmuir, C. H. Effect of water on magma and crustal density: Highly fractionated lavas in the Lau Basin and other wet spreading centers Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement 2005
Auzende, J. M., Y. Lafoy, et al., Recent geodynamic evolution of the North Fiji Basin (Southwest Pacific) Geology 1988
Baba, K., M. de Saint Laurent Chirostylid and galatheid crustaceans (Decapoda: Anomura) from active thermal vent areas in the Southwest Pacific Scientia Marina (Barcelona) 1992
Baba, K., M. Tuerkay Munida magniantennulata, a new deepsea decapod crustacean from active thermal vent areas of Valu-Fa-Ridge in the Lau Basin, SW-Pacific (Anomura: Galatheidae) Senckenbergiana maritime. Frankfurt/Main 1992
Bach, W. S., W. E. Hegner, et al., Chemical fluxes in the Tonga subduction zone: Evidence from the southern Lau Basin Geophys. Res. Lett. 1998
Bach, W. S., Niedermann, Atmospheric noble gases in volcanic glasses from the southern Lau Basin: origin from the subducting slab? Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 1998
Baker, E. T., Massoth, G. J., Nakamura, K., Embley, R. W., de Ronde, C. E. J., Arculus, R. J. Hydrothermal activity on near-arc sections of back-arc ridges: Results from the Mariana Trough and Lau Basin Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 2005
Baker, E. T., Resing, J. A., Walker, S. L., Martinez, F., Taylor, B., Nakamura, K. Abundant hydrothermal venting along melt-rich and melt-free ridge segments in the Lau back-arc basin Geophysical Research Letters 2006
Bednarz, U., H. U. Schmincke Composition and origin of volcaniclastic sediments in the Lau Basin (Southwest Pacific), Leg 135 (Sites 834-839) Proc. ODP Sci. Results 1994
Beninger, P. G., M. Le Pennec Reproductive characteristics of a primitive bivalve from a deep-sea reducing environment: Giant gametes and their significance in Acharax alinae (Cryptodonta: Solemyidae) Marine Ecology Progress Series 1997
Bevis, M. Geodetic measurements in the Tonga-Lau arc system Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union 1997
Bevis, M., D. A. Phillips, et al., Revised estimates of crustal velocity in the Tonga-Lau system Eos, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union 2000
Bevis, M., Taylor, F. W., Schutz, B. E., Recy, J., Isacks, B. L., Helu, S., Singh, R., Kendrick, E., Stowell, J., Taylor, B. Geodetic observations of very rapid convergence and back-arc extension at the Tonga arc Nature 2002
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Bortnikov, N. S., D. T. Fedorov, et al., Mineral composition and conditions of the formation of sulfide edifices in the Lau Basin (southwestern sector of the Pacific Ocean) Geology of Ore Deposits 1993
Bourdon, B., S. Turner, et al., Melting dynamics beneath the Tonga-Kermadec island arc inferred from 231Pa-235U systematics Science 1999
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Bryan, W. B., T. H. Pearce Plagioclase zoning in selected lavas from Holes 834B, 839B, and 841B.%J Proc. ODP Sci. Results 1994
Childress, J.J, Figueroa, D.,, Henry, M. Physiological ecology of back-arc basin fauna: explorations of the known and unknown Geophysical Monograph Series 2006
Chiu, J. M., B. L. Isacks, et al., 3-D configuration of subducted lithosphere in the western Pacific Geophys. J. Int. 1991
Clift, P., J. E. Dixon Variations in arc volcanism and sedimentation related to rifting of the Lau Basin, Southwest Pacific Proc. ODP Sci. Results 1994
Cole, J. W., I. J. Graham, et al., Magmatic evolution of late Cenozoic volcanic rocks of the Lau Ridge, Fiji Contr. Mineral. Petrol. 1990
Collier, J. S., M. Sinha Seismic images of a magma chamber beneath the Lau Basin back-arc spreading centre Nature 1990
Collier, J. S., M. C. Sinha Seismic mapping of a magma chamber beneath the Valu Fa Ridge, Lau Basin J. Geophys. Res. 1992
Conder, J. On the decompression melting structure at volcanic arcs and back-arc spreading centers Geophysical Research Letters 2002
Conder, J. A., Wiens, D. A. Seismic structure beneath the Tonga arc and Lau back-arc basin determined from joint Vp, Vp/Vs tomography Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 2006
Crawford, A. J., Meffre, S., Symonds, P. A. 120 to 0 Ma tectonic evolution of the southwest Pacific and analogous geological evolution of the 600 to 220 Ma Tasman Fold Belt System Special paper- Geological Society of America 2003
Crawford, W. C., Wiens, D. A., Dorman, L. M., Webb, S. C., Wiens, D. A. Tonga Ridge and Lau Basin crustal structure from seismic refraction data Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth 2003
Cronan, D. S., R. A. Hodkinson Geochemistry of hydrothermal sediments from ODP sites 834 and 835 in the Lau Basin, Southwest Pacific Marine Geology 1997
Cronan, D. S., R. A. Hodkinson, et al., Diagenetically modified buried hydrothermal manganese crusts from the Lau Basin, SW Pacific Mar. Georesour. Geotec. 2002
Daessle, L. W., Cronan, D. S. Hydrothermal input in recent sediments proximal to the Eastern Lau Spreading Centre, Lau Basin, SW Pacific Ciencias Marinas 2001
Daessle, L. W., D. S. Cronan Late Quaternary hydrothermal sedimentation adjacent to the Central Lau Spreading Center Marine Geology 2002
Danyushevsky, L. V., T. J. Falloon, et al., The H2O content of basalt glasses from Southwest Pacific back-arc basins Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 1993
Davis, A. S., D. A. Clague, et al., Volcanic glass compositions from two spreading centers in Lau Basin, southwest Pacific Ocean Geol. Jahrb. 1990
Day, A. J., C. Peirce, et al., Three-dimensional crustal structure and magma chamber geometry at the intermediate-spreading, back-arc Valu-Fa Ridge, Lau Basin - results of a wide-angle sesimic tomographic inversion Geophys. J. Int. 2001
Desbruyeres, D., A. M. Alayse-Danet, et al., Deep-sea hydrothermal communities in southwestern Pacific back-arc basins (the North Fiji and Lau Basins): Composition, microdistribution and food web Marine Geology 1994
Dril, S. I., M. I. Kuzmin, et al., Geochemistry of basalts from the western Woodlark, Lau and Manus basins: implications for their petrogenesis and source rock compositions Marine Geology 1997
Durand, P., B, A., et al., Numerical taxonomy of heterotrophic sulfur-oxidizing bacteria isolated from southwestern Pacific hydrothermal vents Can. J Microbiol. 1994
Eguchi, T. Microearthquakes and tectonics in an active back-arc basin: the Lau Basin Phys. Earth Planet. Inter. 1987
Ewart, A., W. B. Bryan, et al., Regional geochemistry of the Lau-Tonga arc and back-arc systems Proc. ODP Sci. Results 1994
Ewart, A., K. D. Collerson, et al., Geochemical evolution within the Tonga-Kermadec-Lau arc-backarc systems: the role of varying mantle wedge composition in space and time J. Petrology 1998
Ewart, A., C. J. Hakesworth The Pleistocene-Recent Tonga Kermadec arc lavas: Interpretation of new isotopic and rare earth data in terms of a depleted mantle source model J. Petrol. 1987
Ewart, A., J. Hergt, et al., Major, trace element and Pb, Sr, and Nd isotope geochemistry of Site 839 basalts and basaltic andesites: implications for arc volcanism Proc. ODP Sci. Results 1994
Falloon, T. J., D. H. Green, et al., Refractory magmas in back-arc basin settings - Experimental constraints on the petrogenesis of a Lau Basin example Journal of Petrology 1999
Falloon, T. J., A. Malahoff, et al., Petrology and geochemistry of backarc basin basalts from Lau Basin spreading ridges at 15, 18, and 19°S Mineralogy and Petrology 1992
Farley, K. N., S. Newman H2O, CO2, sulphur, and fO2 systematics in basalts from the ancient and modern Lau back-arc basin, SW Pacific Eos Trans. Am. Geophys. Union: 1994
Fischer, K. M., K. C. Creager, et al., Mapping the Tonga slab J. Geophys. Res. 1991
Fischer, K. M., M. Parmentier, et al., Modeling anisotropy and plate-driven flow in the Tonga subduction zone back-arc J. Geophys. Res. 2000
Fischer, K. M., D. A. Wiens The depth distribution of mantle anisotropy beneath the Tonga subduction zone Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett. 1996
Forsyth, D. W., S. C. Webb, et al., Phase velocities of Rayleigh waves in the vicinity of the MELT experiment on the East Pacific Rise Science 1998
Foucher, J. L., et al., La ride volcanique de Valu Fa dans la bassin de Lau meriodional (sud-ouest Pacifque) C.R.Acad. Sci.Paris 1988
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Fouquet, Y., U. v. Stackelberg, et al., Hydrothermal activity in the Lau back-arc basin. Sulphides and water chemistry Geology 1991
Fouquet, Y., U. v. Stackelberg, et al., Metallogenesis in back-arc environments: The Lau Basin example Economic Geology 1993
Fouquet, Y., U. V. Stackelberg, et al., Hydrothermal activity and metallogenesis in the Lau back arc basin Nature 1991
Frenzel, G., R. Muhe, et al., Petrology of the volcanic rocks from the Lau Basin, southwest Pacific Geol. Jahrb. 1990
Fujiwara, T., T. Yamazaki, et al., Bathymetry and magnetic anomalies in the Havre Trough and southern Lau Basin: from rifting to spreading in back-arc basins Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 2001
Galkin, S. V. Megafauna associated with hydrothermal vents in the Manus Back Arc Basin (Bismarck Sea) Marine Geology 1997
Geistdoerfer, P. The deep-sea fish fauna of hydrothermal vents, with a description of a new synaphobranchid genus and species Thermobiotes mytilogeiton (Pisces, Anguilliformes) in the Pacific Ocean C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 1991
C. R. German, E. T. Baker, D. P. Connelly, J. E. Lupton, J. Resing, R. D. Prien, S. L. Walker, H. N. Edmonds, C. H. Langmuir Hydrothermal exploration of the Fonualei Rift and Spreading Center and the Northeast Lau Spreading Center Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 2006
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Gilbert, H. J., A. F. Sheehan, et al., Upper mantle discontinuity structure in the region of the Tonga Subduction Zone Geophys. Res. Lett. 2001
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Guinot, D. Austinograea alayseae sp. nov., hydrothermal crab discovered in the Lau Basin, south-western Pacific (Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura) Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. (France) 1989
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Hawkins, J. W. Petrology and geochemistry of basaltic rocks of the Lau Basin Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 1976
Hawkins, J. W., M. Talwani, W. C. Pitman Petrological and geochemical characteristics of marginal basin basalts Island Arcs, Deep Sea Trenches, and Back Arc Basins, Maurice Ewing Series,1. 1977
Hawkins, J. W. Petrologic synthesis, ODP Leg 135 - Lau Basin transect Proc. ODP Sci. Results 1994
Hawkins, J. W., B. Taylor The Geology of the Lau Basin Back-Arc Basins: Tectonics and Magmatism. 1995
Hawkins, J. W., B. Taylor, J. Natland Evolution of the Lau Basin: Insights from ODP Leg 135 Active Margins and Marginal Basins. AGU Monograph 88 1995
Hawkins, J. W., S. Helu Polymetallic sulphide deposit from black-smoker chimney: Lau Basin, (abstract) Eos Trans. AGU 1986
Hawkins, J. W., J. T. Melchior Petrology of Mariana Trough and Lau Basin basalts J. Geophys. Res. 1985
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Hergt, J. M., K. N. Farley Major, trace element, and isotope (Pb, Sr, and Nd) variations in Site 834 basalts: implications for the initiation of backarc opening Proc. ODP Sci. Results 1994
Hergt, J. M., C. J. Hawkesworth The Pb, Sr, and Nd isotopic evolution of the Lau Basin: implications for mantle dynamics during the back-arc opening Proc. ODP Sci. Results 1994
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