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    The Kolbeinsey Ridge is a segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge located to the north of Iceland in the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded to the south by the Tjörnes...
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    400km 250miles Kolbeinsey    Kolbeinsey (Icelandic: [ˈkʰɔlˌpeinsˌeiː] ; also known as Kolbeinn's Isle, Seagull Rock, Mevenklint, Mevenklip, or Meeuw Steen)...
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    northern Iceland the Tjörnes Fracture Zone connects Iceland to the Kolbeinsey Ridge. The ridge sits atop a geologic feature known as the Mid-Atlantic Rise,...
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  • of the Kolbeinsey Ridge (KR). See Chronology of Eruptions below: [example needed] - Kolbeinsey Ridge, is a segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge located...
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    Ridge – Atlantic Ocean tectonic plate boundary Kolbeinsey Ridge – Segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge north of Iceland in the Arctic Ocean Mohns Ridge –...
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    northeastwards from the Reykjanes Ridge, forming the Kolbeinsey Ridge. During the period when both the Kolbeinsey and Aegir ridges were active, the microcontinent...
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    which spreading at the Kolbeinsey Ridge was energetically favorable to spreading at the Aegir Ridge. As the Kolbeinsey Ridge began rifting, hotspot material...
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    discovered in 2002 in a hydrothermal vent off the coast of Iceland on the Kolbeinsey Ridge by Karl Stetter. It has been proposed as the first species in a new...
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    main island are the Reykjanes Ridge (RR), as part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to the south-west and the Kolbeinsey Ridge (KR) to the north. Two transform...
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    The Reykjanes Ridge of the Mid-Atlantic ridge system in this region crosses the island from southwest and connects to the Kolbeinsey Ridge in the northeast...
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  • Atlantic Ocean Mid-Atlantic Ridge – Atlantic Ocean tectonic plate boundary Kolbeinsey Ridge (North of Iceland) Mohns Ridge Knipovich – Russian zoologistPages...
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    bordered to the south by the Reykjanes Ridge segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and to the north by the Kolbeinsey Ridge. Rifting in the southern part of Iceland...
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    Hofsjokull, fissure vent Hromundartindur, stratovolcano Katla, fissure vent Kolbeinsey Ridge, fissure vent Krafla, caldera Krysuvik-Trolladyngja, crater rows Kverkfjoll...
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    Iceland hotspot (category Mid-Atlantic Ridge)
    Reykjanes Ridge segments to their spreading direction, and the enhanced igneous crustal thickness found along the southern Aegir and Kolbeinsey ridges may be...
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    its proximity to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which transforms into the Kolbeinsey Ridge, and the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, and it lies just south of the Arctic...
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  • thus explosive eruptions. North of Iceland, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is called Kolbeinsey Ridge (KR) and is connected to the NVZ via the Tjörnes Fracture Zone...
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    F.; Möller, H.; Pracht, J. (1997). "Cruise Report Poseidon 229a/b Kolbeinsey Ridge, Akureyri - Reykjavik". doi:10.3289/CR_POS229. {{cite journal}}: Cite...
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    List of submarine topographical features (category Oceanic ridges)
    Gorda Ridge Juan de Fuca Ridge Knipovich Ridge (between Greenland and Spitsbergen) Kolbeinsey Ridge (North of Iceland) Mid-Atlantic Ridge Mohns Ridge Norfolk...
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    marine hydrothermal vents. They were discovered in samples taken at the Kolbeinsey Ridge north of Iceland, as well as at the East Pacific Rise (at 9 degrees...
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  • of hydrogen and thiosulfate. Aquifex pyrophilus was discovered at Kolbeinsey Ridge, North of Iceland by Robert Huber and Karl Stetter in 1992. In Huber's...
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  • 31-28 Ma and extension transferred to the Kolbeinsey Ridge around 400 km to the west. In the Reykjanes Ridge to the south, after around 16 million years...
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    Robert Huber, discovered a new species of thermophilic bacteria near Kolbeinsey Ridge and named the species Aquifex pyrophilous. Nanoarchaeum equitans, an...
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    31-28 Ma and extension transferred to the Kolbeinsey Ridge around 400 km to the west. In the Reykjanes Ridge to the south, after around 16 million years...
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    ridge. The Iceland Plateau is bounded on the south by the Reykjanes Ridge, on the west by the Greenland-Iceland Ridge, on the north by the Kolbeinsey...
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  • Strýtan vent field (category Mid-Atlantic Ridge)
    Lineament, which connects to the Eyjafjarðaráll Rift which extends to the Kolbeinsey Ridge. Strýtan is among the shallowest vent fields known and is among the...
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    Center Gorda Ridge Juan de Fuca Ridge Mid-Atlantic Ridge Knipovich Ridge Kolbeinsey Ridge Mohns Ridge Reykjanes Ridge Pacific-Antarctic Ridge South American–Antarctic...
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  • abundance, and diversity of peracarid crustaceans on a transect of the Kolbeinsey Ridge, north of Iceland. Polar Biology 13 (8): 565–576. Brandt, A., (1995)...
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    the Molucca Sea is a narrow basin underlined by a north‐south ophiolitic ridge, which uplifts the central region of the basin. While the scientific community...
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    graduate students on research expeditions to the Kolbeinsey Ridge, the SW Indian Ridge, 45°N Mid Atlantic Ridge, and 9°03 East Pacific Rise. Wyoming is home...
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    side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, northwest of the Açores-Biscay rise Kolbeinsey Ridge – A segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge north of Iceland in the Arctic...
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