Notes on Vent Field Description:
numerous chimneys emitting buoyant white smoker fluids, as well as irregular shaped mounds with flange structures; approx. 5 km from Troll Wall; southernmost Mohns Ridge, 60 km west of Jan Mayen Island; Schander et al. (2010): "located at a rifted volcanic ridge at 700-750 m depth, where venting takes place at two fields, each 100-200 m across. At both fields white smoker fluids with temperatures up to 260-270 C discharge from numerous chimneys"
Notes Relevant to Biology:
white bacterial mats, shrimp, anemones, crinoids; see Schander et al. (2010): "the Jan Mayen fields do not support a high biomass of vent-endemic fauna"
Year and How Discovered (if active, visual confirmation is listed first):
2005 ROV BIODEEP-05 cruise
Discovery References (text):
Pedersen, RB et al. (2005) Two Vent Fields Discovered at the Ultraslow Spreading Arctic Ridge System. AGU Fall Meeting 2005, abstract #OS21C-01.
Other References (text):
Pedersen, R. B., et al. (2010) Hydrothermal Activity at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridges, in Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges (eds P. A. Rona, C. W. Devey, J. Dyment and B. J. Murton), American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C.. doi: 10.1029/2008GM000783
Eickmann, B., et al. (2010) Barite chimneys from two hydrothermal sites along the slow-spreading Arctic Ridge system: Initial isotope and mineralogical results. AGU Fall Meeting Abstract #OS21A-1482.
Schander, C., et al. (2010) The fauna of hydrothermal vents on the Mohn Ridge (North Atlantic). Marine Biology Research, 6: 2, 155-171, doi:10.1080/17451000903147450.
Stensland, A., et al. (2019) 3He along the ultraslow spreading AMOR in the Norwegian-Greenland Seas. Deep-Sea Res. I, 147, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.04.004;