Moytirra: discovery of the first known deep-sea hydrothermal vent field on the slow-spreading mid-atlantic ridge north of the azores

• Published in: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
• Main Authors: Wheeler, A. J., Murton, B., Copley, J., Lim, A., Carlsson, J., Collins, P., Dorschel, B., Green, D., Judge, M., Nye, V., Benzie, J., Antoniacomi, A., Coughlan, M., Morris, K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2013
• Subjects: mid-atlantic ridge; hydrothermal vent; massive sulfides; vent biota; median valley fault; floor massive sulfides; east pacific rise; ne atlantic; rimicaris-exoculata; reykjanes ridge; communities; fauna; biodiversity; ocean; invertebrates; Pacific; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Reykjanes; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10379/14412; https://doi.org/10.1002/ggge.20243

Geological, biological, morphological, and hydrochemical data are presented for the newly discovered Moytirra vent field at 45 degrees N. This is the only high temperature hydrothermal vent known between the Azores and Iceland, in the North Atlantic and is located on a slow to ultraslowspreading mid...