Ultramafic-hosted field, consisting of active high-temperature vents located either on top of small mounds or associated with so-called smoking craters, a feature that is unique to this locality.
Ref.:
- Mozgova, N.N., Krasnov, S.G., Batuyev, B.N. Borodaev, Y.S., Efimov, A.V., Markov, V.F., and Stephanova, T.V. (1996): The first report of cobalt pentlandite from a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal deposit. Canadian Mineralogist 34, 23-28.
- Pašava, J., Vymazalová, A., and Petersen, S. (2007): PGE fractionation in seafloor hydrothermal systems: examples from mafic- and ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal fields at the slow-spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Mineralium Deposita 42, 423-431.
