The monograph summarizes results of petrological and geochemical studies of rocks from the ocean floor collected by the authors during expeditions to the Central Atlantic. Detailed work in the Capa Verde transform fault zone gave a large amount of new information about magmatic and hydrothermal systems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Supplement to: Simonov, Vladimir A; Kolobov, V Yu; Peyve, Alexander A (1999): Petrology and Geochemistry of Geodynamic Processes in the Central Atlantic. Publishing House of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk), 224 pp