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Hydrothermal Mineral Assemblages at 71° N of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (First Results)

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The article discusses the preliminary results of plume and bottom sediment studies of the Trollveggen hydrothermal vent field based on data from cruise 68 of the R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh. The hydrothermal vent field is located east of the axial zone of the slow-spreading Mohn Ridge near the Jan Mayen hotspot at a depth of about 550 m (71°18′ N, Norwegian–Greenland Basin). The hydrothermal vent field plume was characterized by a weak distribution in the water column; temperature, density, and salinity anomalies; a moderate methane concentration; and a low concentration of suspended particulate matter near the bottom. The enrichment of bottom sediments in barium, strontium, and some sulfide-forming elements (zinc, lead, copper, and molybdenum) was shown. Two mineral assemblages of hydrothermally modified bottom sediments were revealed: pyrite and barite–marcasite. The temperature of hydrothermal fluids was established by thermal and cryometric studies of gas–liquid fluid inclusions in barite (128–260°С); the FeS–ZnS equilibrium diagram of sulfide minerals was also used (130–290°С). Our data were close to direct fluid temperature measurement data [28]. We compared the hydrothermal mineralization of the Trollveggen vent field and earlier studied fields of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge located near the Azores hotspot. As a result, we confirmed the influence of ocean depth and PT conditions on the formation of hydrothermal deposits.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank the crew of the R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, D.V. Eroshenko, G.V. Malafeev, and S.M. Isachenko, for assistance in sediment sampling; S.V. Gladyshev for CTD data; A.S. Savvichev, A.L. Chultsova, and A.I. Kochenkova for help in collecting and processing samples; and L.L. Demina for useful discussions.

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Expeditionary research was supported by the state budget (funding of marine expeditions) and the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 14-50-00095). Chemical and mineralogical analyses were supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-05-00787). Laboratory work and article preparation were carried out as part of the state task of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (topic no. 0149-2019-0007).

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  1. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117218, Moscow, Russia

    M. D. Kravchishina, A. Yu. Lein, A. G. Boev, D. P. Starodymova, O. M. Dara, A. N. Novigatsky & A. P. Lisitzin

  2. Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017, Moscow, Russia

    V. Yu. Prokofiev

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Kravchishina, M.D., Lein, A.Y., Boev, A.G. et al. Hydrothermal Mineral Assemblages at 71° N of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (First Results). Oceanology 59, 941–959 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437019060109

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