Lomonosov Ridge (Хребет Ломоносова in Russian) is an underwater oceanic ridge in the Arctic Ocean. It spans for 1800 km from the New Siberian Islands over the central part of the ocean to the Ellesmere Island of the Canadian Arctic islands. The width of the Lomonosov Ridge varies from 60 to 200 km. It rises 3,300 - 3,700 m above the seabed. The minimum depth of the ocean above the ridge is 954 m. Slopes of the ridge are relatively steep, broken up by canyons, and covered with layers of silt. An oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, usually formed by plate tectonics. ... KM, Km, or km may stand for: Khmer language (ISO 639 alpha-2, km) Kilometre Kinemantra Meditation Knowledge management KM programming language Comoros (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) the Michaelis-Menten constant Km, see Michaelis-Menten kinetics Kamenz (district), Germany (license plate indication) Messenia, Greece (license plate indication... New Siberian Islands (Russian: Новосиби́рские острова́), an archipelago, located to the North of the East Siberian coast between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea north of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. ... Ellesmere Island, in the Arctic Ocean, is the worlds 10th largest island, and Canadas third largest island, with an area of 196,235 km2 (75,767 square miles). ... The Arctic islands of Canada make up most of the territory of Nunavut and part of the Northwest Territories. ... M is the thirteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. ... The seabed is the bottom of the ocean. ... Look up depth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In classical physics, depth is a distance measured vertically from top to bottom (height) or horizontally from outside to inside (thickness). ... Grand Canyon, Arizona A canyon, or gorge, is a valley walled by cliffs. ... Silt refers to soil or rock particles of a certain very small size range (see grain size). ...

The Lomonosov Ridge was first discovered by the Soviet high-latitude expeditions in 1948 and named after Mikhail Lomonosov. Soviet redirects here. ... Latitude, denoted by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (Михаи́л Васи́льевич Ломоно́сов) (November 19 (November 8, Old Style), 1711 – April 15 (April 4, Old Style), 1765) was a Russian writer and polymath who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. ...