Discovery of abundant hydrothermal venting on the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Edmonds, H.N., Michael, P.J., Baker, E.T., Connelly, D.P., Snow, J.E., Langmuir, C.H., Dick, H.J.B., Muhe, R., German, C.R., Graham, D.W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Gakkel Ridge
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/102016/; http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v421/n6920/full/nature01351_fs.html; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01351

Submarine hydrothermal venting along mid-ocean ridges is an important contributor to ridge thermal structure, and the global distribution of such vents has implications for heat and mass fluxes from the Earth's crust and mantle and for the biogeography of vent-endemic organisms. Previous studie...