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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. East Diamante Volcano showing Black Forestvent field.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Modis satellite image showing eruption atAnatahan Island in May 2003.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition.Purple anemone (~6 inches across ~15 cm) on a pumice rock alongthe east crater wall, West Rota volcano. Anemones are suspension feeders, capturing zooplankton with their tentacles.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Stunning image of Aquarium site.A picturesque gully with abundant life including algae (red and green), soft corals (pink with white stalks) and tropical fish abound.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition.Interlayered basaltic (dark) and felsic (light)ash layers in the east wall of West Rota caldera. This cliff is approximately3 meters [9 ft.] tall.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. At East Diamante volcano (190 mwater depth), chemosynthetic and photosynthetic communities overlap. Patchesof encrusting red and green algae lie beneath filamentous bacterial mats onrock surfaces. The small white co
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Bacteria Balls forming on the leftand and rolling down hill on the right. These microbial mats are similarin composition to those as seen at the Yellow Top Vent site.The balls range from 1 to 5 cm (~1 in) in diameter.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. At East Diamante volcano (195 m water depth),tropical fish swim above boulders covered with bacterial mat, which indicatesthe presence of hydrothermal venting. These fish live in thereef community above and are about
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Close-up of a vent barnacle that we'recurrently trying to identify. The furry things are their little legs(cirri) that capture food particles. The density of barnacles was so extremehere that there was little room fo
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. The steep slope of the East Diamante volcanois seen in this image from the upper left to the lower right-hand side. Large blocks of lava, denoted by the cracks, are covered by a thin layer of sediment. In the foregrou
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Views of the plume coming out of Brimstone Pitcrater near the summit of Northwest Rota-1 volcano. The crater rim is visiblein the foreground in images #4 and #5. Burst of rocks and droplets of moltensulfur were inte
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Views of the plume coming out of Brimstone Pitcrater near the summit of Northwest Rota-1 volcano. The crater rim is visiblein the foreground in images #4 and #5. Burst of rocks and droplets of moltensulfur were inte
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Views of the plume coming out of Brimstone Pitcrater near the summit of Northwest Rota-1 volcano. The crater rim is visiblein the foreground in images #4 and #5. Burst of rocks and droplets of moltensulfur were inte
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Views of the plume coming out of Brimstone Pitcrater near the summit of Northwest Rota-1 volcano. The crater rim is visiblein the foreground in images #4 and #5. Burst of rocks and droplets of moltensulfur were inte
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Views of the plume coming out of Brimstone Pitcrater near the summit of Northwest Rota-1 volcano. The crater rim is visiblein the foreground in images #4 and #5. Burst of rocks and droplets of moltensulfur were inte
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Vertical profile of Brimstone Pit crater,near the summit of NW Rota-1 submarine volcano. Huge billows of yellow-tingedsmoke poured from the crater, as well as sulfur, ash and small rocks.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Close-up of bubbles at the Champagne vent site.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Individual video frames of a bubbling ventchimney.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition.White flocculent mats in and around the extremely gassy high temperature(>100????C) white smokers at the Champagne Vent Site.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Chemosynthetic microbial mats coverred algae and coral (which are photosynthetic). Hydrothermal vent and coralreef communities are overlapping here at 190 meters, something none of thescientists on the Submarine Ring
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