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Seafloor image from the Guaymas Basin showing biological communities.

Seafloor image from the Guaymas Basin showing biological communities.
Seafloor image from the Guaymas Basin showing biological communities.
Seafloor image from the Guaymas Basin showing biological communities.
Seafloor image from the Guaymas Basin showing biological communities.
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Lizarralde, Soule, and Seewald
Seafloor image from the Guaymas Basin showing biological communities.
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10/30/2009
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 39, no. 3, pg. 50:
Over its 48-hour deployment, the SDSL data-link sent about 15,000 images up the cable. At most of the sites they examined with it, the researchers saw thriving biological communities proof that nutrients were f lowing up from the seafloor at those spots. The oases of living things confirmed Lizarraldes hunch that magma was pushing up toward the seafloor far from the spreading center.
Photo courtesy of Dan Lizarralde, Adam Soule, and Jeff Seewald
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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