Geo-Morphological Analyses of the Gakkel Ridge and the Southwest Indian Ridge

• Main Authors: Dorschel, Boris, Schlindwein, Vera, Eagles, Graeme
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Indian; Gakkel Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36551/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.44358

The Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean and the Southwest Indian Ridge in the Southwest Indian Ocean between Africa and Antarctica are ultraslow-spreading (<20 mm yr-1) mid ocean ridges. This type of mid ocean ridge has distinct geo-morphologies that are influenced by the slow rate of plate divergen...