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The geology of Jan Mayen is part of the larger Jan Mayen Ridge, an undersea volcanic ridge that forms the boundary of the Iceland Plateau to the northeast. North of the island, the sea floor slopes steeply, plunging a depth of greater than two kilometers in the vicinity of Jan Mayen Rift Zone.
Jan Mayen (Urban East Norwegian: [jɑn ˈmɑ̀ɪən]) is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. It is 55 km (34 mi) long (southwest-northeast) and 373 km 2 (144 sq mi) in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of 114.2 km 2 (44.1 sq mi) around the Beerenberg volcano ).
Oct 15, 2014 · Geology. Last active in 1970 and 1985, the land is raw and barely vegetated in most places. It appears as a rocky moonscape of alternating layers of basaltic lava flows and ash or tephra—save for a few sparse areas with dandelions, arctic flowers, and thick beds of mosses.
Jan Mayen, island, part of the Kingdom of Norway, in the Greenland Sea of the Arctic Ocean, about 300 mi (500 km) east of Greenland. It is approximately 35 mi long and 9 mi across at its widest point, with an area of 144 sq mi (373 sq km).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan Mayen is an Arctic island situated in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, at the northernmost tip of the submarine aseismic Jan Mayen Ridge just southward of the seismically active Jan Mayen Fracture Zone.
- Krzysztof Birkenmajer
- 2004
A more detailed account of the geology of Jan Mayen, including all the known volcanic eruptions, can be found in the report: Natur- og kulturmiljøet på Jan Mayen: med en vurdering av verneverdier, kunnskapsbehov og forvaltning.
May 12, 2016 · Two main events determined the formation, geological history, magmatism, and geodynamics of the Jan Mayen microcontinent: (1) drift of this segment of the Laurasian plate over the Iceland plume in the Early Paleogene; (2) propagation of the rift zone of the mid-Atlantic Ridge into this region and separation of the Jan Mayen lithospheric block ...
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