Animals like these are distributed on the seafloor within the Axial Summit Trough (AST) of the East Pacific Rise where warm water is released from the seafloor. The warm water is the result of hot fluids deep beneath the seafloor mixing with cooler sea water near the seafloor surface. This kind of warm water flow, is not focused but is distributed over variable spatial scales and is referred to as diffuse flow.
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Year: 2004
Details:
Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: EPR:9N:Tica
Investigator: Vicki Ferrini
Expedition: AT11-20
Chief Scientist: Marvin Lilley
Species: Riftia pachyptila (Tube worm) Bathymodiolus thermophilus Munidopsis subsquamosa