Getting to the Bottom of Deep Sea Volcanic Activity (9 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Getting to the Bottom of Deep Sea Volcanic Activity (9 of 9)

Caption

A cabled bottom pressure and tilt instrument installed on the seafloor of Axial Seamount at a water depth of ~1,500 m. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 16, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.L. Nooner at University of North Carolina Wilmington in Wilmington, N.C., and colleagues was titled, "Inflation-predictable behavior and co-eruption deformation at Axial Seamount."

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OOI-UW VISIONS'14 cruise, UW/NSF-OOI/CSSF

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