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A flat area on Kelvin Seamount with uniform rippled sediment indicating a highcurrent regime. The rock is perhaps a glacial dropstone. These occasionalhigh points serve as desirable anchors for sponges, small corals, andassociated fauna. Approximat
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A flat area on Kelvin Seamount with uniform rippled sediment indicating a highcurrent regime.
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A flat area on Kelvin Seamount with uniform rippled sediment indicating a highcurrent regime. The rock is perhaps a glacial dropstone. These occasionalhigh points serve as desirable anchors for sponges, small corals, andassociated fauna. Approximat
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A flat area on Kelvin Seamount with uniform rippled sediment indicating a highcurrent regime.
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Pillow lavas.
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Pillow lavas.
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The base of a very old pillow lava. This seamount is approximately 90 millionyears old.
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Pillow lavas.
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A large pillow lava on an unnamed seamount at 38 55 N 64 49 W at approximately4680 meters depth.
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Odd gradation of black pebbles with white sand sediment appearing only to theright of a strongly demarcated line.
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Ropy excrement perhaps from an acorn worm.
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Perhaps a small sediment flow but probably caused by the thrusters on the ROV.
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Perhaps a small sediment flow. Note lasers indicating that ROV was probably notthe source of sediment disturbance.
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Some sort of algae growing around an area of dead cup corals interspersed withlive cup corals. The anemone does not seem affected.
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Plastic bag and wire on the seafloor. The wire has been on the seafloor for asubstantial time as it is being colonized by various lifeforms.
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White plastic? paper? in close proximity to pancake urchin while eel swims incenter of image. Note trail formed by urchin.
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White plastic? paper? in close proximity to pancake urchin.
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A yellow basket? straw hat? providing habitat for a few brittle stars.
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A tangle of monofilament line on the seafloor. It has been there sufficientlylong to have a small orange anemone attached to it. An urchin is alsowandering through it.
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A blanket? canvas? blue plastic? wedged between dead cup corals. A pycnogonidcrab strolls over the seafloor.
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