In an article found on MSNBC, the article claimed scientists had found an Arctic Hot Spot, but in reality it was not a hot spot they had found, but just highly active area of the Gakkel Ridge, shown in polar projection map at left, which is just a segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. More than likely the phrase hot spot in the title of the article was just a journalistic phrase used to describe a newly discovered highly active region of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, since a majority of the article is about the discovery of 12 highly active underwater volcanoes and some newly discovered hydrothermal vents in the place of what they though would be little volcanic activity. As it is considered the slowest sprea
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