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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Colorful tropical fish, soft corals, andbasket stars cover the top of a volcanic spine that extends into theupper ocean where sunlight can penetrate at East Diamante volcano.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Three-dimensional view of EastDiamante submariane volcano. This active volcano was visited on the SubmarineRing of Fire 2004 expedition. The central peaks dive site is an area wherehydrothermal activity overlapped w
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. The summit of Diamante volcano,created from an EM300 grid. The bathymetry data were collected on theSubmarine Ring of Fire 2002 and 2003 expeditions. Themajor vent sites visited on dives R787 and R788 are noted.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. The vertical column in the centerof the image, called a dike, rises from below sea level to the pinnacle at thetop of the ridge. Interlaid massive lavas (darker horizontal bands)and ash-rich lava units (reddish) are
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. While attempting to sample an outcrop ofhydrothermally altered lava, the view changed rapidly (over a 2 minute time span) from good visibility to chunks of rock, sulfur and ash totallyobscuring the outcrop from our vi
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Thick orange bacterial mat found near thesummit of Northwest Eifuku volcano grow where warm hydrothermal vent fluidsseep out of the seamount. The orange color reflects the factthat iron is coming out in the vent flui
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Thick orange bacterial mat found near thesummit of Northwest Eifuku volcano grow where warm hydrothermal vent fluidsseep out of the seamount. The orange color reflects the factthat iron is coming out in the vent flui
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Bubbles of liquid CO2 float out of theseafloor at Champagne vent on Northwest Eifuku volcano. The hydrothermalvent fluids being emitted by this volcano had large amounts ofdissolved gases in them.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. White smoky vent fluid rises out ofsmall sulfur chimneys at Northwest Eifuku volcano. This area wasnamed Champagne vent because bubbles of liquidCO2 were rising out of the seafloor.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. White smoky vent fluid rises out ofsmall sulfur chimneys at Northwest Eifuku volcano. This area wasnamed Champagne vent because bubbles of liquidCO2 were rising out of the seafloor.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. White smoky vent fluid rises out ofsmall sulfur chimneys at Northwest Eifuku volcano. This area wasnamed Champagne vent because bubbles of liquidCO2 were rising out of the seafloor.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. A dense bed of hydrothermal musselscovers the slope of Northwest Eifuku volcano near a seafloor hot springcalled Champagne vent . Other vent animals living amongthe mussels include shrimp, limpets, and Galatheid crab
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. A dense bed of hydrothermal musselscovers the slope of Northwest Eifuku volcano near a seafloor hot springcalled Champagne vent . Other vent animals living amongthe mussels include shrimp, limpets, and Galatheid crab
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. A dense bed of hydrothermal musselscovers the slope of Northwest Eifuku volcano near a seafloor hot springcalled Champagne vent . Other vent animals living amongthe mussels include shrimp, limpets, and Galatheid crab
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. A dense bed of hydrothermal musselscovers the slope of Northwest Eifuku volcano near a seafloor hot springcalled Champagne vent . Other vent animals living amongthe mussels include shrimp, limpets, and Galatheid crab
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Map of NW Eifuku Volcano showing location ofChampagne Vents near summit of mountain.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Active smoker chimneys precipitating iron,copper and zinc sulfides from 230????C fluid. 9 meters tall from the base to thetop of the chimneys seen in the photograph. Dark beehive-type chimneys,here about 30 cm tall,
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Flatfish (sole) were found in great numbersat Kasuga-1 and Daikoku volcanoes. Most of the fish in thisimage are < 10 cm long (~4 in).
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Global view of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. Galatheid crabs and shrimp graze on bacterialfilaments. The black 'scars' on the mussels are anchor points, left bymussels who have cut their threads and moved.
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