The findings show the
East Pacific Rise, the Earth's dominant mid-ocean ridge, is dynamic as heat is transferred.
The basalt located at 9 to 10[degrees]N on the
East Pacific Rise consists of normal mid-ocean ridge basalt (N-MORB).
Over several trips, the researchers scoured 1,470 kilometers along the
East Pacific Rise. The sensor, towed by a ship, drifted within a few hundred meters of the seafloor.
In the past, expeditions have catalogued the basic species that live in and around vent systems on the
East Pacific Rise, a vast volcanic mountain chain on the seafloor beneath the Pacific.
This chain crosses the
East Pacific Rise at about 27[degrees]S (Gonzalez-Ferran, 1994).
He has since led six expeditions, authored a forensic study of the German battleship Bismarck wreck site and conducted extensive 3-D imaging of deep hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the
East Pacific Rise and the Sea of Cortez.
It was in a southern portion of the Pacific Ocean, below a large and well-known helium plume coming off the
East Pacific Rise, one of the best-studied vent regions on earth.
verruca from the
East Pacific Rise at 21[degrees]N, and N.
On the
East Pacific Rise near 13[degrees]N, Jollivet (1996) found a specific set of macrofauna that appeared to be associated with each type of vent microhabitat.
There, along a sea bottom ridge known as the
East Pacific Rise, vents spew out 500-degree water that provides a home for the Pompeii worm, the most heat-tolerant animal on the planet.
on commuting across the Cocos Ridge of the
East Pacific RiseSunday's feature: twenty-four soothing hours of the sulfur-sucking tubeworms of the
East Pacific Rise.