Sea ice forms when the ocean freezes in the winter. Depending on wind conditions and how fast the ice forms the newly generated ice has different shapes. Under moderate wind conditions the new ice is created by forming these circular shapes, which is called pancake ice. If enough pancake ice is formed, wind can blow the ice together into dense fields.
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Year: 2006
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Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: Antarctica:AmundsenSea
Investigator: Frank Nitsche
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Sea ice forms when the ocean freezes in the winter. Under calm wind conditions the water freezes in sheets (Nilas). These sheets can move over and into each. Sometimes like here in the Amundsen Sea, new snow covers the sea ice.
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Year: 2006
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Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: Antarctica:AmundsenSea
Investigator: Frank Nitsche
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Typical actively-venting sulfide mineral edifice in the High-Rise vent field of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. The 45 m-high edifice, named Godzilla, was discovered and mapped in 1991. For scale the submersible Alvin, shown to the left of the edifice, is 6 m long. Courtesy of V. Robigou, Ocean et Terra Studio.
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Year: 1993
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Media Type: Illustration
Data Type: Visualization
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Feature: JdF:Endeavour:HighRise:Godzilla
Investigator: Veronique Robigou
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Aerial photograph of the northern Gulf of California showing Cerro Prieto volcano and adjacent geothermal field. In the upper right, note the evaporation ponds used for geothermal fluids. Picture courtesy of Axel Schmitt, pilot Mark Harrison.
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Year: 2009
Details:
Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: NotApplicable
Feature: GulfOfCalifornia:CerroPrieto
Investigator: Axel Schmitt
Expedition: GulfOfCalifornia:Schmitt
Chief Scientist: Axel Schmitt
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A UCSC graduate student is shown examining a stratally-disrupted turbidite sequence (melange) below an out-of-sequence thrust or splay fault on Afrognak Island, Kodiak Islands, Alaska. Image courtesy of Casey Moore, UCSC.
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Year: 2010
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Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: NotApplicable
Feature: Alaska:KodiakIslands
Investigator: Casey Moore
Expedition: Kodiak_Islands:Moore
Chief Scientist: Casey Moore
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Annotated photograph of frictionally-melted fault rock, enclosing cataclasite, and melange cross-cut by the cataclasite. Location is Pasagshak Peninsula, Kodiak Islands, Alaska. Image courtesy of Casey Moore, UCSC
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Year: 2010
Details:
Media Type: Illustration
Data Type: Interpretation:Geologic
Device Type: NotApplicable
Feature: Alaska:KodiakIslands
Investigator: Casey Moore
Expedition: Kodiak_Islands:Moore
Chief Scientist: Casey Moore
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Tolaga Bay, New Zealand, where the Waiau and Mangaheia rivers reach the Pacific Ocean. Image courtesy of Steve Kuehl, VIMS.
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Year: 2010
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Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
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Feature: NewZealand
Investigator: Steven Kuehl
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Application of scientific understanding of balances between sedimentation, production of accommodation space, and process transitions to the prediction of future changes expected for large, heavily populated, low-lying deltas. This schematized prediction of the lower Mississippi River below New Orleans shows the predicted new land (delta surface) that could be built over the next 100 years depending on sediment flux, sea level rise, and subsidence rate [from Kim et al., 2009].
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Year: 2009

Lithospheric rupture and crustal recycling along the oblique-divergent plate boundary in the Salton Trough and northern Gulf of California. From Dorsey [2010].
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Year: 2010
Details: From GeoPRISMS Draft Science Plan
Media Type: Illustration
Data Type: Interpretation:Geologic
Device Type: NotApplicable
Feature: NotApplicable
Investigator: Rebecca Dorsey
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Schematic cross-section of volcanic stratigraphy in the Mariana fore-arc, showing the age progression of lava types from FAB to transitional lavas, to boninites. Image courtesy of Mark Reagan
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Year: 2010
Details: From GeoPRISMS Draft Science Plan
Media Type: Illustration
Data Type: Interpretation:Geologic
Device Type: NotApplicable
Feature: IBM:Mariana
Investigator: Mark Reagan
Expedition: Mariana_Forearc_Reagan_2002
Chief Scientist: Mark Reagan
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