John R. Delaney, Ph.D. (Univ. of Arizona), Professor.
jdelaney@u.washington.edu. Causes and consequences of mass and energy flux through the global ridge crest system; hydrothermal, magmatic and tectonic processes which form and modify young oceanic crust; and interplay among physical, chemical and biological processes at spreading centers. UW Astrobiology Program. Adjunct Professor of Geological Sciences.
Veirs, S.R., R.E. McDuff, M.D. Lilley and J.R. Delaney (submitted) Locating hydrothermal vents by detecting and modeling buoyant, advected plumes. Journal of Geophysical Research.
Karsten, J.L., J.R. Delaney, et al. (in press) Spatial and temporal evolution of magmatic systems beneath the Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge: Tectonic and petrologic constraints. Journal of Geophysical Research.
Delaney, J.R. (1998) Life on the seafloor and elsewhere in the solar system. Oceanus 41: 10-13.
Delaney, J.R., D.S. Kelley, M.D. Lilley, D.A. Butterfield, J.A. Baross, W.S.D. Wilcock, R.W. Embley and M. Summit (1998) The quantum event of oceanic crustal accretion: Impacts of diking at mid-ocean ridges. Science 281: 222–230.
Gao, D.L., S.D. Hurst, J.A. Karson, J.R. Delaney and F.N. Spiess (1998) Computer-aided interpretation of side-looking sonar images from the eastern intersection of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge with the Kane Transform. Journal of Geophysical Research 103: 20,997-21,014.
Delaney, J.R., D.S. Kelley, M.D. Lilley, D.A. Butterfield, R.E. McDuff, J.A. Baross, J.W. Deming, H.P. Johnson and V. Robigou (1997) The Endeavour Hydrothermal System I: Cellular circulation above an active cracking front yields large sulfide structures, "fresh" vent water, and hyperthermophilic archaea. RIDGE Events 8: 11–19.
Wilcock, W.S.D. and J.R. Delaney (1997) The size of mid-ocean ridge sulfide deposits: Evidence for heat extraction from magma chambers or cracking fronts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 145: 49-64.
Sarrazin, J., V. Robigou, S.K. Juniper and J.R. Delaney (1997) Biological and geological dynamics over four years on a high-temperature sulfide structure at the Juan de Fuca Ridge hydrothermal observatory. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 153: 5-24.
Butterfield, D.A., I.R. Jonasson, G.J. Massoth, R.A. Feely, K.K. Roe, R.E. Embley, J.F. Holden, R.E. McDuff, M.D. Lilley and J.R. Delaney (1997) Seafloor eruptions and evolution of hydrothermal fluid chemistry. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 355: 369-386.