Morphology of seamounts at the Mendeleev Rise, Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Gusev, Evgeny, Rekant, Pavel, Kaminsky, Valery, Krylov, Alexey, Morozov, Andrey, Shokalsky, Sergey, Kashubin, Sergey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2017
• Subjects: Ocean geomorphology; submarine landscapes; slope structures; Arctic Ocean; Mendeleev Ridge; Arctic; Mendeleev Rise; arktika; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/2646

Geological and geophysical studies undertaken during the Russian Arktika-2012 Expedition of 2012 produced evidence of basement outcrops on the steep slopes of the Mendeleev Rise seamounts. Observations of the outcrops from research submarines showed that part of the steep slopes interpreted as basem...