Research cruise to the Reykjanes Ridge
The northeast Atlantic is the destination of expedition MSM119 with the research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN. The seafloor drilling rig MARUM-MeBo70 is also on board. The aim is to drill into the upper ocean crust of a young, cold flank of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and to install borehole observatories. In the future, they will be used to document and quantify the fluid flow in the basaltic crus>> read more