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SJ. Jan Mayen ( Urban East Norwegian: [jɑn ˈmɑ̀ɪən]) [1] 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 ).
- 377 km² (146 sq mi)
- 0 (up to 35 non-permanent residents)
- 2,277 m (7470 ft)
- Arctic Ocean
Oct 15, 2014 · Jan Mayen, the most northerly island along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, is one of them. As a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow on a Lindblad Expeditions adventure into the High Arctic, I had an amazing opportunity to visit this remote volcanic island spilling five glaciers into the Arctic Ocean on July 6, 2014.
Apr 1, 2018 · Samples obtained during a dredging and gravity coring survey by Polteau et al. (2018) on the Jan Mayen Southern Ridge Complex were described as freshly broken, subaerially erupted, vesicular, and ...
Beerenberg volcano on Jan Mayen island, Norway. 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). It is the peak of a submarine volcanic ridge, and ...
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; Blischke et al., 2017; Foulger, 2006; Torsvik et al., 2015). The JMMC is bounded to the north by the 72 Jan Mayen Fracture Zone (JMFC), to the southeast by the Ægir Ridge, and to the northwest by the 73 Kolbeinsey Ridge (Figure 1). 74 . The JMMC is interpreted to have been part of the Møre Basin (e.g. Theissen-Krah et al., 2017)
Nov 1, 2012 · K/Ar ages of rocks from the Jan Mayen Island confirm that the emergent part of the Jan Mayen Ridge is young, mostly post-Pleistocene in age (Fitch et al. 1965). Nd–Sr–Pb isotope analysis also indicates that these rocks are derived from enriched mantle source with no clear evidence for continental contamination (Svellingen & Pedersen 2003 ...
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. The region is highly tectonically active, at the ...
