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Gakkel Ridge
The
Gakkel Ridge
(formerly known as the
Nansen Cordillera
and
Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge
) is a
mid-oceanic ridge
, a divergent
tectonic
plate boundary between the
North American Plate
and the
Eurasian Plate
. It is located in the
Arctic Ocean
between
Greenland
and
Siberia
, and has a length of about 1,800 kilometers. Geologically, it connects the northern end of the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
with the
Laptev Sea Rift
.
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