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Pedersen RB, Rapp HT, Thorseth IH, et al. Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Nat Commun. 2010;1:126doi: 10.1038/ncomms1124.
Pedersen, R. B., Rapp, H. T., Thorseth, I. H., Lilley, M. D., Barriga, F. J., Baumberger, T., Flesland, K., Fonseca, R., Früh-Green, G. L., & Jorgensen, S. L. (2010). Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Nature communications, 1126. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1124
Pedersen, Rolf B, et al. "Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge." Nature communications vol. 1 (2010): 126. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1124
Pedersen RB, Rapp HT, Thorseth IH, Lilley MD, Barriga FJ, Baumberger T, Flesland K, Fonseca R, Früh-Green GL, Jorgensen SL. Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Nat Commun. 2010 Nov 23;1:126. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1124. PMID: 21119639; PMCID: PMC3060606.
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Nat Commun. 2010 Nov 23;1:126. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1124.

Discovery of a black smoker vent field and vent fauna at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.

Nature communications

Rolf B Pedersen, Hans Tore Rapp, Ingunn H Thorseth, Marvin D Lilley, Fernando J A S Barriga, Tamara Baumberger, Kristin Flesland, Rita Fonseca, Gretchen L Früh-Green, Steffen L Jorgensen

Affiliations

  1. 1] Centre for Geobiology, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen, Norway. [2] Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen, Norway.

PMID: 21119639 PMCID: PMC3060606 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1124

Abstract

The Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge (AMOR) represents one of the most slow-spreading ridge systems on Earth. Previous attempts to locate hydrothermal vent fields and unravel the nature of venting, as well as the provenance of vent fauna at this northern and insular termination of the global ridge system, have been unsuccessful. Here, we report the first discovery of a black smoker vent field at the AMOR. The field is located on the crest of an axial volcanic ridge (AVR) and is associated with an unusually large hydrothermal deposit, which documents that extensive venting and long-lived hydrothermal systems exist at ultraslow-spreading ridges, despite their strongly reduced volcanic activity. The vent field hosts a distinct vent fauna that differs from the fauna to the south along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The novel vent fauna seems to have developed by local specialization and by migration of fauna from cold seeps and the Pacific.

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