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Submarine Mass Transport Within Monterey Canyon: Benthic Disturbance Controls on the Distribution of Chemosynthetic Biological Communities
Documenting mass transport within Monterey Canyon and Fan has been a focus of remotely operated vehicle (ROV) observations, sampling, monitoring, and multibeam map** studies. These efforts indicate that majo...
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Failure of plume theory to explain midplate volcanism in the southern Austral islands
It has long been recognized that the properties of the Cook–Austral chain (Fig. 1) of volcanoes in the South Pacific are difficult to reconcile with the theory that volcanic activity in plate interiors is produce...
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Tomographic image of the magma chamber at 12°50' N on the East Pacific Rise
THE East Pacific Rise at 12°50' N (Fig. 1) is a fast-spreading ridge with intense hydrothermal activity1, and ophiolite studies2and thermal modelling3 indicate that this is a likely setting for a magma chamber. A...