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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Jan Mayen Microcontinent (redirect from Jan Mayen Ridge)
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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Outline of plate tectonics (section Oceanic ridges)
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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Kenneth Sims (geologist) (section Mid-ocean ridges)
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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Outline of oceanography (section Oceanic ridges)
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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