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Julia Linder retrieving station flag on ice.

Julia Linder retrieving station flag on ice.
Julia Linder retrieving station flag on ice.
Julia Linder retrieving station flag on ice.
Julia Linder retrieving station flag on ice.
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Linder, Christopher
Julia Linder retrieving station flag on ice.
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09/11/2007
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Julia Linder, a graduate student from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, retrieves a flag that marked one of several temporary seismological stations that she and seismologist Vera Schlindwein set up during this expedition on ice floes in the Arctic Ocean. The seismometers detected small volcanic and earthquake events that occur all the time on mid-ocean ridges such as the Gakkel Ridge. But seismologists cannot put ocean-bottom seismometers on it as they can at other ridges around the world, because the Gakkel Ridge lies beneath an ice-covered ocean. To record smaller events, Schlindwein's strategy is to get as close as possible to the Gakkel Ridge. So she has installed seismometers on ice floes, usually four at a time, floating above the ridge.
Photo by Chris Linder
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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