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Photomosaic of Crab Basin vent cluster at Mothra (2003)

Wed, 04/15/2009 - 14:47 — mgds
Photomosaic of Crab Basin vent cluster at Mothra (2003)

Mosaic of a diffusely venting, cockscomb array at Crab Basin. In 1998, the top 1.5 m of Gwenen (far left) was removed during the Edifice Rex expedition. By 2003, when this composite image was collected, a small bush of tubeworms had grown above the cut surface. Subhorizontal fractures within the chimney are lined with white bacterial mat. Twenty images from ROPOS Dive 725 were used in this mosaic, created by Mitchell Elend, University of Washington.
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Year: 2003
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Media Type: Photomosaic
Data Type: Photograph:Mosaic
Device Type: Camera:Digital

Hydrothermal Vent Photomosaic at Kilo Moana vent field (2005)

Thu, 01/21/2010 - 12:34 — mgds
Hydrothermal Vent Photomosaic at Kilo Moana vent field (2005)

Photomosaic of a hydrothermal vent structure at the Kilo Moana vent field in the Lau Basin.
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Year: 2005
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Media Type: Video
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: Lau:N-ELSC:KiloMoana
Investigator: Vicki Ferrini
Expedition: TUIM05MV
Chief Scientist: Margaret Tivey
Species: Bathymodiolus brevior

Photomosaic of Twin Peaks at Mothra (1997)

Wed, 04/15/2009 - 14:08 — mgds
Photomosaic of Twin Peaks at Mothra (1997)

Mosaic of the Twin Peaks hydrothermal cluster, which includes two ~8m tall sulfide structures called the Climber (left) and Flying Buttress (right). These comprise the most actively venting portion of the cluster. Smaller extinct sulfide chimneys surround the active structures, with localized areas of diffuse flow emanating from the sulfide talus at the base of the chimneys. This mosaic includes 17 images collected on Jason dive 231 during the 1997 Edifice Rex cruise. Photo mosaic created by Mitchell Elend, University of Washington.

Photomosaic of Faulty Towers at Mothra (1997)

Mon, 11/17/2008 - 15:31 — mgds
Photomosaic of Faulty Towers at Mothra (1997)

The east face of the Faulty Towers hydrothermal cluster comprises the largest cockscomb array known in the Mothra Field. Seventy-three electronic still images from Jason dive 229 were used to create this mosaic.
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Year: 1997
Details:
Media Type: Photomosaic
Data Type: Photograph:Mosaic
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: JdF:Endeavour:Mothra:FaultyTowers
Investigator: Deborah Kelley
Expedition: AT03-07
Chief Scientist: John Delaney
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Mosaic of new lava flow at EPR (2007)

Thu, 05/01/2008 - 10:45 — mgds
Mosaic of new lava flow at EPR (2007)

Mosaic of TowCam photos of the new lava flows erupted during the 2005-06 EPR eruption near 9°50'N collected during cruise AT15-15 (T. Shank Chief Scientist). Contacts between new lava and older, sediment-dusted flow surface is obvious, and new flow thickness if often thin, <1-2 m. Each image is ~4 m across. Mosiac constructed using software developed by Yuri Zhanov (U. New Hampshire) and Stace Beaulieu (WHOI). Mosaic processed by Allison Fundis and Dorsey Wanless (U. Florida). Image courtesy of Tim Shank, Marshall Swartz, Adam Soule, and Dan Fornari (WHOI).

Animation of nested Ridge2000 datasets (2008)

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Animation showing Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT) with nested sidescan sonar (Martinez et al., 2004), high-resolution bathymetry (courtesy C. Langmuir KM0417; Ferrini et al., 2008) and down-looking photomosaic (courtesy C.