Discovery of the first hydrothermal field along the 500-km-long Knipovich Ridge offshore Svalbard (the Jøtul field).

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Bohrmann, Gerhard, Streuff, Katharina, Römer, Miriam, Knutsen, Stig-Morten, Smrzka, Daniel, Kleint, Jan, Röhler, Aaron, Pape, Thomas, Sandstå, Nils Rune, Kleint, Charlotte, Hansen, Christian, Dos Santos Ferreira, Christian, Walter, Maren, de Paula Santos, Gustavo Macedo, Bach, Wolfgang
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2024
• Subjects: Knipovich Ridge; Svalbard; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60802-3; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38702385; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11068752/

Oceanic spreading centers north of Iceland are characterized by ultraslow spreading rates, and related hydrothermal activity has been detected in the water column and at the seafloor along nearly all ridge segments. An exception is the 500-km-long Knipovich Ridge, from where, until now, no hydrother...