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Shaded relief image of the fast-spreading East Pacific Rise.

Shaded relief image of the fast-spreading East Pacific Rise.
Shaded relief image of the fast-spreading East Pacific Rise.
Shaded relief image of the fast-spreading East Pacific Rise.
Shaded relief image of the fast-spreading East Pacific Rise.
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Shaded relief image of the fast-spreading East Pacific Rise.
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10/14/2024
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 41, No. 1, Pg. 3:
Shaded relief image of the fast-spreading East Pacific Rise at 12°35’ to 13° N enlarged from the northern part of the image above. The 12°37’ N overlapping spreading center is in the foreground; the 12°54’ N overlapping spreading center is in the background. These discontinuities offset the ridge axis only 1 to 2 kilometers and define a fundamental segmentation of the spreading center that went unrecognized until multibeam echo sounders were available. The axial summit trough is large enough here (some 500 meters wide by 50 meters deep) to show up as a small axis parallel groove along the crest of the East Pacific Rise.
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© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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