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Mid-Cayman Rise Expedition 2011
Ocean Exploration
Sea anemone on sand cliff
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Sea anemone on sand cliff
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A lone somewhat stunted coral bush
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A lone coral bush on hydrothermally altered rock
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A whip coral with a small sponge at the base of the rock outcrop. Aholothurian is to the left on the sandy sea floor.
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A bed of dead mussels indicating possible past hydrothermal activity. Brokencoral bushes give an impression of some underwater cataclysm havingoccurred here.
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Small green octocorals
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Bamboo coral
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Closeup of octocoral polyps on bamboo coral
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Bamboo octocoral
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Small bamboo coral bush in area of angular volcanic blocks partially covered bysand and mud.
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Bamboo coral contrasted with dark volcanic rock.
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A well camouflaged pen coral tht nearly blends into the color of the bottomsediment. Notice the large extended octocoral polyps.
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Remnants of a dead coral bushes that looks like dry desert brush.What broke these bushes?
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Dead coral bush. This like the bushes in image expl6678 seems to be devoid ofany colonizing life.
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A small bamboo coral in an area of broken sheet flows and heavy sandsedimentation.
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A small bamboo coral anchored to a large volcanic boulder.
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A small bamboo coral bush anchored to a volcanic boulder. The boulder surfaceappears to be dark and shiny enough to be obsidian, a form of volcanic glass.
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A lone, somewhat stunted, iridigorgia coral on a rock and sand slope.
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Coral bush with attached brachiopods? and large brisingid starfish. The blackrock outcrop looks like fresh glassy obsidian.
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