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Article: Behavior of arctic ocean ridge may lead to new insights into crust formation.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- July 14, 2003
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2003 JUL 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The discovery that an ocean ridge under the Arctic ice cap is unexpectedly volcanically active and contains multiple hydrothermal vents may cause scientists to modify a decades-long understanding of how ocean ridges work to produce the Earth's crust.
The new results, which come from a study of the Gakkel Ridge, one of the slowest spreading ridges on Earth, have broad implications for the understanding of the globe-encircling mid-ocean ridge system where melting of the underlying mantle creates the ocean floor.
In two articles appearing in the June 26, 2003, edition of the journal Nature, scientists supported by ...