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Ocean bottom seismometer recovery operations.

Ocean bottom seismometer recovery operations.
Ocean bottom seismometer recovery operations.
Ocean bottom seismometer recovery operations.
Ocean bottom seismometer recovery operations.
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McGuire, Jeff
Ocean bottom seismometer recovery operations.
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03/30/2009
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R/V Atlantis crews 15, leg XLII. January 11, 2009 to February 3, 2009
Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Costa Rica.
Planned activities are the recovery of forty-one ocean bottom seismometers and seven seafloor geodesy tripods. The operations area is the East Pacific Rise at 3.5 to 5 South, -106.5 to 102.5 West at a depth range of 2500-4200 meters.
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Crew aboard the R/V Atlantis recover an ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) during a January 2009 expedition. The sensitive instruments are deployed on the seafloor to record ground movements from undersea earthquakes or the echoes of sound from ship-towed sound sources reflecting off layers of rock and sediment deep beneath the ocean floor. This OBS was one of 41 deployed at depths of 2500-4200 meters along the Quebrada, Discovery, and Gofar transform faults at the East Pacific Risea fast-spreading center along the mid-ocean ridge.
Photo by Jeff McGuire
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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