Provenance and characteristics of rocks from the Yermak Plateau, Arctic Ocean: Petrographic, geochemical and geochronological constraints

• Published in: Marine Geology
• Main Authors: Riefstahl, Florian, Estrada, Solveig, Geissler, Wolfram H., Jokat, Wilfried, Stein, Rüdiger, Kämpf, Horst, Dulski, Peter, Naumann, Rudolf, Spiegel, Cornelia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Ellesmere Island; Fram Strait; Franz Josef Land; Greenland; Greenland Sea; North Greenland; Svalbard; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/41461/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2013.06.009; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48349

The Yermak Plateau is a prominent bathymetric feature of the Arctic Ocean. To the west it is bordered by the Fram Strait, which forms the only deep-water connection between the Arctic and the other global oceans. Origin, crustal nature and age of the Yermak Plateau are largely unknown. For this stud...