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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Some common zooplankton (mostly copepods)collected near the surface over East Diamante volcano.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Map showing operations on Mariana Arc Submarine Ring of Fire Expedition.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. A Digital Still Camera (DSC) image of sulfurballs (~ 0.25 inches in diameter, > 0.5 cm) littering the seafloornear Brimstone Pit.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. The R/V Thomas G. Thompson holding stationover Maug caldera while the crew prepares to deploy ROPOS.The Thompson is 86 meters from bow to stern (274 ft).
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Photograph of three small (~30 cm tall) actively venting spires sitting on top of one of the chimneys in the Black Forestvent field. The chimneys themselves are about 7 m tall. The fluids here areventing at 240????C
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. A perspective view of the several eruptioncones inside the East Diamante caldera. Our CTD tow (black sawtoothline) mapped out a plume of particles carried southeast from the Black Forestvent field by the local current
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. A close-up of the tubeworm Lamelli brachia,found at both Kasuga-2 and Daikoku volcanoes. The tubeworm bushesat Daikoku were up to 1 meter tall (~3 ft).
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Yellow and orange microbial mats formingbioreactor mound with a thin crust and small chimneys on top. The crustyouter coating acts as a thermal blanket to elevate internal temperaturefrom diffuse venting and help reta
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Gulf of Alaska Seamount Expedition. 2004 Gulf of Alaska Seamount science party.
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