What does MORB stand for?

Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalt

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Rocks from mid-ocean spreading ridges, which are fed from the shallow upper mantle, are "DMM" (Depleted Mid-ocean ridge basalt Mantle).

Conduits into Earth's inaccessible interior: hot plumes from deep ...

The same melting has now also been identified in mid-ocean ridge basalt, in tiny glass particles, or glass (melt) inclusions, incorporated into crystals of olivine, a mineral that forms in basalts as they cool and solidify.

If rocks could talk ... The ion microprobe extracts hidden clues ...

Recent ocean drilling penetration of serpentine diapirs and volcanoes in the Mariana forearc (leading edge of the Eurasian plate, in the Philippine Sea) documents intermixed blocks of mid-ocean ridge basalt and blueschist.

When plates collide: convergent-margin geology