GUEST INTERVIEW: Peter Rona on the Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges
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By , on December 30th, 2011 One comment   Geology, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , , , , , , ,  

Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 188, 2010. Editor’s Note: The following interview was conducted by Colin Schultz for American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) member publication Eos. AGU and Colin have been kind enough to let Deep Sea News reprint the interview for our readers! Peter Rona is a legend in hydrothermal vent research. Colin Schultz, Diversity of . . . → Read More: GUEST INTERVIEW: Peter Rona on the Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges

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The Creation of a New Deep-Sea Feature
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By , on August 18th, 2009 One comment   Expeditions, Geology, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

A mysterious plume, possibly a stream of ice-covered methane bubbles (inset arrow), rises about 1.4 kilometers from the seafloor off the coast of California. The plume originates in a previously unknown, amphitheater-shaped scar (main image, arrow) on the ocean bottom about 32 kilometers northwest of California’s Cape Mendocino. A recent oceanographic survey on the NOAA . . . → Read More: The Creation of a New Deep-Sea Feature

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