加科尔岭(前身为南森山脉和北极大洋中脊的加科尔岭 ) 是一个洋中脊 , 北美板块和欧亚板块之间的发散构造板块边界。 它位于北冰洋 格陵兰和西伯利亚之间,并具有约1800公里的长度。
Geologically, it connects the northern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge with the Laptev Sea Rift .
地质上,它连接拉普捷夫海裂谷 中大西洋海岭的北端。
The existence and approximate location of the Gakkel Ridge were predicted by Soviet polar explorer Yakov Yakovlevich Gakkel , and confirmed on Soviet expeditions in the Arctic around 1950.
苏联极地探险家雅科夫·雅科夫列维奇·加科尔的存在和大致位置对加科尔岭进行了预测,并证实苏联在北极探险。1950年左右,
The Ridge is named after him, and the name was recognized in April 1987 by SCUFN (under that body's old name, the Sub-Committee on Geographical Names and Nomenclature of Ocean Bottom Features).
岭以他的名字命名,1987年4月被确认的名称SCUFN (根据该机构的旧名,地名和海底特征的命名小组委员会)。
The ridge is the slowest known spreading ridge on earth, with a rate of less than one centimeter per year.
脊是地球上已知的最慢扩张洋脊的速率每年小于1厘米。
Until 1999, it was believed to be non-volcanic; that year, scientists operating from a nuclear submarine discovered active volcanos along it.
直到1999年,它被认为是火山,这一年,从核潜艇的科学家发现了活跃的火山沿。
In 2001 two research icebreakers, the German Polarstern and the American Healy , with several groups of scientists, cruised to the Gakkel Ridge to explore it and collect petrological samples.
在2001年两个研究的破冰船,德国Polarstern号和美国希利 ,几组科学家,巡航的加科尔山脊探索和收集岩石样本。
Among other discoveries, this expedition found evidence of hydrothermal vents .
在其他的发现,本次科考发现的热液喷口的证据。
In 2007, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution conducted the "Arctic Gakkel Vents Expedition" (AGAVE), which made some unanticipated discoveries, including the unconsolidated fragmented pyroclastic volcanic deposits that cover the axial valley of the ridge (whose area is greater than 10 km 2 ).
在2007年, 伍兹霍尔海洋研究所进行“北极加科尔的通风口远征”(龙舌兰),这使得一些意想不到的发现,包括松散分散的火山碎屑的火山沉积物覆盖轴向脊(面积大于10 平方公里的山谷) 。
These suggest volatile substances in concentrations ten times those in the magmas of normal mid-ocean ridges. The AGAVE expedition also discovered on the Gakkel ridge, using "free-swimming" robotic submersibles , what they called "bizarre 'mats' of microbial communities containing a half dozen or more new species".
这些建议的挥发性物质的浓度10倍正常洋中脊岩浆中的。龙舌兰上加科尔脊探险队还发现,使用“自由游泳” ,他们所谓的“离奇”垫“的机器人潜水器微生物群落含有半打或更多的新物种“