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Keywords

  • hydrothermal
  • marine
  • sonar
  • observatory

Index Terms

  • Marine Geology and Geophysics: Midocean ridge processes
  • Volcanology: Hydrothermal systems (0450, 1034, 3017, 3616, 4832, 8135)
  • Volcanology: Mid-oceanic ridge processes (1032, 3614)
  • Volcanology: Instruments and techniques

Abstract

EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 92, NO. 20, PAGE 169, 2011
doi:10.1029/2011EO200002

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Sonar images hydrothermal vents in seafloor observatory

Peter Rona

Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J., USA

Russ Light

Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Hydrothermal plumes venting from black smokers and diffuse flow discharging from the surrounding area of the seafloor are important as agents of transfer of heat, chemicals, and biological material from the crust into the ocean in quantitatively significant amounts [Elderfield and Schultz, 1996]. An unprecedented time series of three-dimensional (3-D) volume images of plumes rising tens of meters from black smoker vents and of concurrent 2-D maps of diffuse flow discharging from surrounding areas of the seafloor illuminates the turbulent behavior of hydrothermal fluid transfer into the ocean (see Figure 1).

Published 17 May 2011.

Citation: Rona, P. and R. Light (2011), Sonar images hydrothermal vents in seafloor observatory, Eos Trans. AGU, 92(20), 169, doi:10.1029/2011EO200002.

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