Mid-Atlantic ridge with iron-rich waters extending from Brazil to Namibia discovered

Monday, November 11th 2013 - 16:03 UTC

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At the slow-spreading mid-Atlantic ridge in the South Atlantic Ocean an iron cloud spreads for more than 1,000 kilometers across the Atlantic from west of Namibia, Africa, to northeast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The iron-rich waters flow 1,500 to 3,500 meters beneath the surface of the ocean. The complete extent and shape of the iron plume remains to be discovered. Read full article

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Conqueror
I trust that everybody has noted the position of Tristan da Cunha. Part of the BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORY of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Anyone interested should note that Tristan is 1,866 miles from Walvis Bay in Namibia and well beyond the Namibian shelf. In South America, Montevideo is 2,436 miles away. So, if it's valuable, it's BRITISH. And it's within an undersea ridge. So the ridge is British. African and Latam states can stay away unless they have licences. No longer international waters.
Nov 11th, 2013 - 05:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
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Nov 11th, 2013 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Conqueror
@2 Your remark HAS been reported. Perhaps you'd like to die every time you come out with a comment to which you have no answer. Do yourself a favour and go back to doing what you “might” be good for. Dragging your arse down a gravel path.
Nov 11th, 2013 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Frank
Obviously this is an Argentine resource... its in the South Atlantic after all...

Somebody seems to have disturbed Fido's rock
Nov 11th, 2013 - 07:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
its british,
and will be defended.
Nov 11th, 2013 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Lord Ton
If that undersea ridge had been off Argentina, they'd immediately have claimed Namibia !
Nov 11th, 2013 - 11:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
For some years debate has flowed back and forth about the danger of doping the sea to contain CO2 and therefore stop “global warming”, ha, ha, ha.

Now it seems the planet has been doing it for itself. Great. Stuff the so called experts of the IPPC. I wonder if one of the executives still keeps his hand in at his profession of hairstylist? And I kid you not.

A concensus of 3,000 “scientists” “believe” global warming will kill the planet.

Good job these “scientists” (who are never named or even seen in this quantity) have been kept out of the loop by Mother Earth.

I just love it, I really do.
Nov 12th, 2013 - 09:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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redp0ll
Don't those resources belong to the government of St Helena and the dependant territories ?
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