| General info | |
| Project title | MOMAR - FRANCE (Monitoring Mid Atlantic Ridge) |
| Project acronym | MOMAR |
| Project website | http://www.momarfr.org/ |
| Begin date | 1998-01-01 |
| End date | To present |
| Location | |
| Geographic coverage | Azores area |
| Description | |
| Abstract | The MOMAR (Monitoring the Mid-Atlantic Ridge) project was initiated by the international InterRidge Programme, to study active mid-ocean ridge processes along a slow-spreading ridge section (see Workshop reports for goals and other information). Multidisciplinary studies have already started to follow up the long-term evolution of hydrothermal environments at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) near the Azores (35°N to 40°N).
Hydrothermal circulation at midocean ridges is a fundamental process that impacts the transfer of energy and matter from the interior of the Earth to the crust, hydrosphere and
biosphere.
Seawater circulates through the permeable upper oceanic crust at mid-ocean ridges, exchanges chemicals with the surrounding rocks, and is heated up to temperatures of a few hundred degrees Celsius. This hot fluid flows up and is expelled at hydrothermal sites, in the form of black smokers, or diffuse vents.
The unique faunal communities that develop near these vents are sustained by themosynthetic microbes that use the chemicals in the hot fluids as a source of energy. |
| Coordinator | |
| Coordinating organisation | Institute of Earth Physics of Paris
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| Country of Coordinator | France |
| Contact name | CANNAT Mathilde |
| Contact organisation | Institute of Earth Physics of Paris
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| Phone | +33 (0)1 83 95 76 55 |
| Fax | +33 (0)1 83 95 77 14 |
| Email | cannat@ipgp.fr |
| Project partners | |
| Other partners | Geo-Ocean Laboratory, UMR 6538
Geosciences Montpellier
Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne
Universite de Nantes, Laboratoire de Geologie Marine et Appliquee
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| Edmerp metadata | |
| Edmerp id | 10763 |
| Collating centre | Ifremer, Scientific Information Systems for the sea
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| Latest update | 2016-09-09 |
