Development of the Jan Mayen microcontinent by linked propagation and retreat of spreading ridges

• Main Authors: Scott, R. A., Ramsey, L. A., Jones, S. M., Sinclair, S., Pickles, C. S.
• Other Authors: Wandås, B. T. G., Nystuen, J. P., Eide, E. A., Gradstein, F.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2005
• Subjects: 02 - Geodynamics; Geophysics and Tectonics; Aegir Ridge; Greenland; Jan Mayen; Jan Mayen Fracture Zone; Kolbeinsey; Kolbeinsey Ridge; Reykjanes; East Greenland; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/1551/; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0928-8937(05)80044-X

The Jan Mayen microcontinent lies between the active Kolbeinsey Ridge spreading centre and the extinct Aegir Ridge spreading centre in post-Paleocene oceanic crust to the north of Iceland. Uncertainties concerning the age of seafloor magnetic anomalies and the precise extent of oceanic crust in this...