geology
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ALVIN dive AD-4836
*I am still unable to post pictures because of the bandwidth. I will update when I get to land in November. It’s been four days since I went to the ocean bottom at 2500 feet in the HOV ALVIN. I’m still in the afterglow of the adventure and processing the breadth and extent of the Continue reading
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Life @ Sea
Originally posted on Meaning Amidst Measurement: (Note: I wrote the following as a series of email messages to my family while I was conducting research during a 4-week research cruise to the deep sea hydrothermal vents in the Pacific, to give them some idea of what it’s like out there. We left shore in Manzanillo,… Continue reading
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What is a black smoker?
The black smokers are hydrothermal vents that happen at the bottom of the ocean due to the disruption of the ocean floor as a consequence of spreading (divergence) or closing (convergence) of tectonic plates. They are rich with metals like iron and sulfur, so when the super heated material from the bottom of the ocean meets Continue reading
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