Sitting right on top of an eruption
Instruments stationed along the Pacific seafloor captured the first close-up observations of a subsea eruption.
References:
1998. Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. December. San Francisco.
Further Readings:
Information about the Axial seamount eruption is available at http://newport.pmel.noaa.gov/axial98.html.
Sources:
Edward T. Baker
NOAA/PMEL
7600 Sand Point Way, NE
Seattle, WA 98115-0070Christopher Fox
NOAA/PMEL
Hatfield Marine Science Center
2115 SE OSU Drive
Newport, OR 97365
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 1, January 2, 1999, p. 15. Copyright © 1999 by Science Service.
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