Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed

• Published in: Oceanography
• Main Authors: Ramirez-Llodra, Eva, Argentino, Claudio, Baker, Maria, Boetius, Antje, Costa, Carolina, Dahle, Håkon, Denny, Emily, Dessandier, Pierre-Antoine, Eilertsen, Mari, Ferre, Benedicte, German, Christopher, Hand, Kevin, Hilário, Ana, Hislop, Lawrence, Jamieson, John, Kalenitchenko, Dimitri, Mall, Achim, Panieri, Giuliana, Purser, Autun, Ramalho, Sofia, Reeves, Eoghan, Rolley, Leighton, Pereira, Samuel, Ribeiro, Pedro, Fatih Sert, Muhammed, Steen, Ida, Stetzler, Marie, Stokke, Runar, Victorero, Lissette, Vulcano, Francesca, Vågenes, Stig, Waghorn, Kate, Buenz, Stefan
• Other Authors: The Arctic University of Norway Tromsø, Norway (UiT), LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés - UMR 7266 (LIENSs), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: [SDE]Environmental Sciences; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Gakkel Ridge
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03876877; https://hal.science/hal-03876877/document; https://hal.science/hal-03876877/file/36-ramirez-llodra.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2023.103

International audience Evidence of hydrothermal venting on the ultra-slow spreading Gakkel Ridge in the Central Arctic Ocean has been available since 2001, with first visual evidence of black smokers on the Aurora Vent Field obtained in 2014. But it was not until 2021 that the first ever remotely op...