image: The manipulator arm of the Jason remotely operated vehicle (upper left) prepares to sample the new lava flow that was erupted in 2011 on the seafloor at Axial Seamount. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 07 Feb. 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J.S. Byrnes at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., and colleagues was titled, "Anomalous K-Pg-aged seafloor attributed to impact-induced mid-ocean ridge magmatism." view more
Credit: [Credit: Bill Chadwick, Oregon State University, Copyright Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]