Loki's Castle is a field of five active hydrothermal vents in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, located at 73 degrees north on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Iceland and Svalbard at a depth of 2,352 metres (7,717 ft).

2015年5月6日 · Loki’s Castle lies midway between Greenland and Norway, around 2,300 metres below the ocean surface. It’s a field of hydrothermal vents—black, rocky chimneys that belch out...

4 天之前 · In hydrothermal vents located in the North Atlantic Ocean — centered between Greenland, Iceland and Norway, known collectively as Loki’s Castle— they found a new phylum of archaea that they fittingly named the ‘Asgard’ super-phylum after the realm of the Norse gods.

Loki’s Castle, Mohns Ridge, Norwegian Sea, Arctic Ocean : Loki's Castle is a field of five active hydrothermal vents in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, four main chimney edifices can be identified, one named João, on the eastern mound, and the others named ...

4 天之前 · Because the sample came from a site near an active hydrothermal vent called Loki’s Castle, the team decided to call these organisms Lokiarchaea (phylum name: Lokiarchaeota). In this genome, the researchers identified 5,381 protein coding genes.

2024年3月12日 · In new research led by USGS, scientists analyzed cores collected from Loki's Castle vent field, a high-temperature hydrothermal system deep beneath the Arctic Ocean northeast of Greenland, uncovering a unique sedimentary record that provides valuable insights into past hydrothermal activity on the ocean floor.

2010年11月23日 · Loki's Castle harbours a rich, locally adapted and specialized, deep-water vent fauna.

2013年8月2日 · At Loki’s Castle in the Arctic Ocean, researchers have discovered a so far unknown world of volcanic activity underwater. They hope that this can become Norway’s new national park.

Loki's Castle The field of hydrothermal vents known as Loki’s Castle, in the North Atlantic Ocean, where scientists found archaea believed to be related to the archaea that created eukaryotes through symbiosis with bacteria.

2024年1月2日 · In this paper, we present a comprehensive species inventory of the Loki’s Castle vent field (LCVF) on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. The fauna of LCVF has a high degree of novelty.