Primary Convener:
Chris Lowery, University of Texas at Austin

Convener:
Rosalind Coggon, University of Southampton
Julia Reece, Texas A & M University College Station
Jason Sylvan, Texas A&M University

Chair:
Chris Lowery, University of Texas at Austin
Rosalind Coggon, University of Southampton
Julia Reece, Stanford University
Jason Sylvan, Texas A&M University

The South Atlantic Ocean with its slow to intermediate spreading rate and subtropical gyre fills an important gap for studies of oceanic crust formation, hydrothermal fluid flow, deep-biosphere ecosystems, and paleoceanography, which are best known from fast-spreading crustal areas. The uppermost ocean crust in the South Atlantic Ocean records low-temperature hydrothermal processes and exchanges between seawater and basalts. The sediments deposited on top of this ocean crust record the development of Cenozoic ocean circulation in a critical junction between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans, and the development of the South Atlantic Gyre. This session seeks to bring together interdisciplinary studies stemming from recent scientific ocean drilling projects in the South Atlantic Ocean to understand the interactions between lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere in a complex Earth system. We welcome experimental, theoretical, modeling, and observation-based studies from recent and past expeditions of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and its predecessors.

Index Terms
0448 Geomicrobiology
3036 Ocean drilling
4999 General or miscellaneous
8416 Mid-oceanic ridge processes

Cross-Listed:
GP - Geomagnetism‚ Paleomagnetism and Electromagnetism
B - Biogeosciences
V - Volcanology‚ Geochemistry and Petrology
OS - Ocean Sciences

Suggested Itineraries:
Biochemistry

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering