Characterization of the circulation around, above and across (through fracture zones) the Reykjanes Ridge

• Main Author: Petit, Tillys
• Format: Text
• Language: French
• Published: Université de Bretagne occidentale 2018
• Subjects: geo; envir; Bight Fracture Zone; Dorsale; Irminger Sea; La Dorsale; Reykjanes; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00498/60969/64377.pdf; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00498/60969/

The Reykjanes Ridge is a major topographic feature of the North-Atlantic Ocean that extends from Iceland to the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone. Located between the Iceland Basin and the Irminger Sea, the Reykjanes Ridge strongly influences the subpolar gyre circulation and is a gate toward the deep con...