Shipboard multibeam bathymetry provides this closeup view of the Pitman fracture zone on the ocean floor, where the Pacific Plate (upper right) meets the Antarctic Plate (lower left). This fracture zone is located in the far southern Pacific ocean, on the Pacific-Antarctic ridge between New Zealand and Ross Sea, Antarctica.
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Year: 2008
Details: Mid-Ocean Ridge
Media Type: Map
Data Type: Bathymetry
Device Type: Sonar:Multibeam
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Investigator: MGDS
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