The timing and geometry of the Fram Strait opening

• Main Authors: Jokat, Wilfried, Leinweber, Volker Thor, Ehlers, Birte-Marie, Schenke, Hans-Werner
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Fram Strait; Greenland; Greenland Sea; North Atlantic; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/16218/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.26203

The northern branch of the worlds mid-ocean ridge system is located in the northern Norwegian-Greenland Sea (Fram Strait) and the central Arctic Ocean (Gakkel Ridge). The initial phase of the opening of the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean started some 55 Ma. While the timing and geometry of the...