Expedition to the volcanoes of the Arctic seafloor : the AMORE Expedition headed for the so-called “Gakkel Ridge” where, on the floor of the Arctic Ocean, there is hot work afoot – for this ocean ridge is composed of active volcanoes

• Main Authors: Thiede, Jörn, Haas, Christian, Jokat , Wilfried, Mühe, Richard, Spielhagen, Robert, Snow, Jonathan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-VCH 2004
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Gakkel Ridge; Jules; Verne; Iceland
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/28384/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/28384/1/2004_Thiede-etal-Expedition_GermanRes-Special-2004.pdf; http://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/dfg_magazin/wissenschaft_oeffentlichkeit/forschung_magazin/2004/german_research_special_4_en.pdf

Beginning: When Jules Verne made his imaginary journey of exploration to the centre of the earth through the vents in an Icelandic volcano over a hundred years ago, he assumed that all volcanoes are interlinked in a subterranean system. But even his imagination failed to visualise the world-wide sys...