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    The Gakkel Ridge (formerly known as the Nansen Cordillera and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge) is a mid-oceanic ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary between...
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    Gakkel Ridge Caldera, also known as Gakkel Caldera, is a Pleistocene volcanic caldera located on the Gakkel Ridge beneath the Arctic Ocean, off the northern...
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    African and South American plates. The ridge extends from a junction with the Gakkel Ridge (Mid-Arctic Ridge) northeast of Greenland southward to the...
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    the East Pacific Rise. Ridges that spread at rates <20 mm/yr are referred to as ultraslow spreading ridges (e.g., the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean and...
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    includes oceanic crust extending westward to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and northward to the Gakkel Ridge. The western edge is a triple junction plate boundary with...
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    the ocean floor. It is 200 to 450 km wide. The Alpha Ridge, Lomonosov Ridge, and Nansen-Gakkel Ridge are the three major ranges that divide the Arctic Ocean...
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    the northerly boundary is a continuation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge called the Gakkel Ridge. The rest of the boundary in the far northwestern part of the...
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    Zemlya to the Taymyr Peninsula. It is situated south of the underwater ridge Gakkel Ridge roughly 350 kilometers northeast of Svalbard and roughly 220 km north...
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    Arctic Ocean: various sites near the North Pole (Lomonosov Ridge, Gakkel Ridge, Alpha-Mendeleev Ridge complex, and the Chukchi Borderland). Constitutionally...
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    portal Russia's 2001 continental shelf claim Arctic policy of Russia Gakkel Ridge CBC News. Broken ship halts Russian expedition to claim Arctic seabed...
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  • Arctic basin. Yakov Gakkel was awarded two orders and several medals during his scientific career. In 1966, one of the mid-oceanic ridges was named after...
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    characterised by ultra-slow spreading rates (only exceeding those of the Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic) combined with a fast lengthening of its axis between the...
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    Mid-Atlantic Ridge Red Sea Rift Baikal Rift Zone - incipient plate boundary East African Rift - incipient plate boundary East Pacific Rise Gakkel Ridge Galapagos...
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    Ridges), Amundsen Basin (between Lomonosov and Gakkel ridges), and Nansen Basin (between the Gakkel Ridge and the continental shelf that includes the Franz...
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  • joins the southwestern end of the Arctic Ocean's Gakkel Ridge, which is the slowest-spreading mid-ocean ridge on Earth and which stretches across the entire...
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    Structure, geochemistry and implications of a mid-Cretaceous paleospreading ridge in the South Pacific". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 245 (3–4). Elsevier...
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    thereby producing less melt and thinner crust. An example of this is the Gakkel Ridge under the Arctic Ocean. Thicker than average crust is found above plumes...
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    Atlantic Basin through Fram Strait. It is further split by the mid-ocean Gakkel Ridge into the Nansen Basin and the Amundsen Basin. The latter basin is the...
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    2019). "The significance of plagioclase textures in mid-ocean ridge basalt (Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean)". Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 174...
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    It is named after Fridtjof Nansen. The Nansen Basin is bounded by the Gakkel Ridge on the one side and by the Barents Sea continental shelf on the other...
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  • Siberia in Russia. The Laptev Sea Rift is the continuation of the Gakkel Ridge (Mid-Arctic Ridge) into the continental crust of Siberia. It starts offshore in...
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    (Lomonosov Ridge, Greenland Side)) and the Gakkel Ridge (from 81°N 120°E / 81°N 120°E / 81; 120 (Arctic Mid Ocean Ridge, Siberian Side) to 85°N 10°E / 85°N...
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    Mid-ocean ridge (the longest mountain range on Earth) Gakkel Ridge Mid-Atlantic ridge Southwest Indian Ridge Central Indian Ridge Southeast Indian Ridge Pacific-Antarctic...
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    List of submarine topographical features (category Oceanic ridges)
    Ridge Carlsberg Ridge Central Indian Ridge Chile Rise Cocos Ridge East Pacific Rise East Scotia Ridge Explorer Ridge Gakkel Ridge (Mid-Arctic Ridge)...
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    Loki's Castle is located on the Gakkel Ridge (previously the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge), where the Mohns and Knipovich ridges converge. Ocean core complexes...
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    the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate in the east The Gakkel Ridge is a slow spreading ridge located in the Arctic Ocean The East Pacific Rise, extending...
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  • Scotia Ridge – Minor oceanic tectonic plate between the Antarctic and South American platesPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Gakkel Ridge –...
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    mapped 1,100 nmi (2,000 km; 1,300 mi) of the Gakkel Ridge, previously the only unmapped undersea ridge in the world. Twelve previously unknown volcanoes...
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    Ignimbrite 8 Awasa Caldera Main Ethiopian Rift 1000 001.09 1.09 8 Gakkel Ridge Caldera Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean 3000 001.1 1.1 7 Akademia Nauk Kamchatka 100...
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  • underlying Davis Strait; on the southeast by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge; and the northeast by the Gakkel Ridge, with its northwest border still being explored. The...
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