Magmatic and amagmatic seafloor generation at the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean

• Published in: Nature
• Main Authors: Michael, P. J., Langmuir, C. H., Dick, H. J. B., Snow, J. E., Goldstein, S. L., Graham, D. W., Lehnert, K., Kurras, G., Jokat, W., Mühe, R., Edmonds, H. N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2003
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; North Pole; Gakkel Ridge; Breaker
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/33364/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/33364/1/gakkel.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01704

A high-resolution mapping and sampling study of the Gakkel ridge was accomplished during an international ice-breaker expedition to the high Arctic and North Pole in summer 2001. For this slowest-spreading endmember of the global mid-ocean-ridge system, predictions were that magmatism should progres...