Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge
The Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR) represents one of the most slow-spreading ridge systems on Earth. Previous attempts to locate hydrothermal vent fields and unravel the nature of venting, as well as the provenance of vent fauna at this northern and insular termination of the global ridge system, hav...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3060606 2023-05-15T14:55:12+02:00 Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge Pedersen, Rolf B. Rapp, Hans Tore Thorseth, Ingunn H. Lilley, Marvin D. Barriga, Fernando J. A. S. Baumberger, Tamara Flesland, Kristin Fonseca, Rita Früh-Green, Gretchen L. Jorgensen, Steffen L. 2010-11-23 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060606 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21119639 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1124 en eng Nature Publishing Group http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060606 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21119639 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1124 Copyright © 2010, Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ CC-BY-NC-SA Article Text 2010 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1124 2013-09-03T12:25:30Z The Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR) represents one of the most slow-spreading ridge systems on Earth. Previous attempts to locate hydrothermal vent fields and unravel the nature of venting, as well as the provenance of vent fauna at this northern and insular termination of the global ridge system, have been unsuccessful. Here, we report the first discovery of a black smoker vent field at the AMOR. The field is located on the crest of an axial volcanic ridge (AVR) and is associated with an unusually large hydrothermal deposit, which documents that extensive venting and long-lived hydrothermal systems exist at ultraslow-spreading ridges, despite their strongly reduced volcanic activity. The vent field hosts a distinct vent fauna that differs from the fauna to the south along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The novel vent fauna seems to have developed by local specialization and by migration of fauna from cold seeps and the Pacific. Text Arctic PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Mid-Atlantic Ridge Pacific Nature Communications 1 1 |
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The Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR) represents one of the most slow-spreading ridge systems on Earth. Previous attempts to locate hydrothermal vent fields and unravel the nature of venting, as well as the provenance of vent fauna at this northern and insular termination of the global ridge system, have been unsuccessful. Here, we report the first discovery of a black smoker vent field at the AMOR. The field is located on the crest of an axial volcanic ridge (AVR) and is associated with an unusually large hydrothermal deposit, which documents that extensive venting and long-lived hydrothermal systems exist at ultraslow-spreading ridges, despite their strongly reduced volcanic activity. The vent field hosts a distinct vent fauna that differs from the fauna to the south along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The novel vent fauna seems to have developed by local specialization and by migration of fauna from cold seeps and the Pacific. |
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Pedersen, Rolf B. Rapp, Hans Tore Thorseth, Ingunn H. Lilley, Marvin D. Barriga, Fernando J. A. S. Baumberger, Tamara Flesland, Kristin Fonseca, Rita Früh-Green, Gretchen L. Jorgensen, Steffen L. |
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