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Hydrothermal vent at Mariner Vent Field (2009)

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Year: 2009
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Feature: Lau:VFR:Mariner
Investigator: Charles Fisher
Expedition: TN235
Chief Scientist: Charles Fisher
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Earthquakes at Endeavour (2012)

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This clip shows the locations and magnitudes of earthquakes comprising the Endeavour 2005 swarm from 2/23/2005 to 3/5/2005, which initiated near West Valley and Endeavour Seamount and migrated to the south. The balls are color coded to magnitude with warmer colors corresponding to larger magnitude earthquakes (see color bar in the bottom left of corner). A running date and time is also shown near the right hand corner. These data were part of the Keck-UW data set (see Weekly et al., 2008 and Hooft et al., 2010).
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Year: 2012
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Black smoker Finn (2005)

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The Lau Basin Float Experiment (LAUB-FLEX) (2011)

Upflow zone on western wall of Endeavour Segment (2007)

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Exposed high temperature upflow zones have only rarely been found on mid-ocean ridge spreading centers. This video shows a very well exposed upflow zone on the western wall of the Endeavour Segment ~ 4 km south of the Mothra Hydrothermal Field. It is composed of a massive, ~ 200 m across and 100 m high continuous exposure of variably altered and mineralized pillow flows, interspersed with lenses of massive sulfide.

Video of Cathedral Vent Complex (2000)

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Cathedral was discovered in 2000 during the RIDGE NSF-funded 'Perturbations' program. The Cathedral complex is located in the southern portion of the Main Endeavour Field on a small talus rampart on the western axial valley wall. It is believed that the white smokers result from mixing of hydrothermal fluids and seawater in the talus rampart, resulting in precipitation of metals in the subsurface. Temperatures of the white smokers in 2000 ranged from 178°C to 259°C as measured during Jason 2 dive J780. It is believed that this complex resulted from the intrusion event in 1999-2000.

Vigorous hydothermal flow at Sully (2005)

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This video of the black smoker chimney called Sully was taken in 2005 during the UW VISIONS’05 program on Jason 2 Dive J2-177. Sully is located in the Main Endeavour Field and in 2005 was venting 356°C. In 2000, temperatures measured 380°C and the smokers were completely uncolonized by tube worms. Since the 1999 intrusive event at Endeavour, vent fluid temperatures at Sully have continued to decrease, although it has not been visited since 2008.

Thermal Map - Sulfide worms (2009)

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Video showing thermistor array deployed at Axial Volcano at the Juan de Fuca Ridge, and the time-lapse thermal map generated from it.
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Year: 2009
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Feature: JdF:Axial
Investigator: Raymond Lee
Expedition: AT15-51
Chief Scientist: Andrew Fisher
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Hydrothermal Organisms at Rosebud - Galapagos (2002)

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Organisms from hydrothermal vent communities at the Rosebud vent field along the Galapagos Spreading Center (GSC) include tubeworms (Riftia pachyptila), crabs, anemones, and shrimp.
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Year: 2002
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Investigator: Daniel Fornari
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Species: Riftia pachyptila (Tube worm)

Formation of a Subsea Lava Tube (2002)

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Volcanic eruptions at underwater volcanoes commonly result in lava tubes like the ones being formed in this video.
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Year: 2002
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