Pillow lava erupted on the Near East Pacific Rise seamount, close to the East Pacific Rise. © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with thanks to Dr. Daniel Fornari – WHOI-MISO Facility and the National Science Foundation
Pillow lava mound on the Juan de Fuca Ridge. A sea cucumber is on lava that spilled out of one broken pillow. Michael Perfit and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Institute
Curtain folded sheet flow lava near hydrothermal vents, first-discovered in 1977 here on the eastern Galapagos Rift. © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with thanks to Dr. Tim Shank and the National Science Foundation
Choo Choo Train low-temperature venting site and animal vent community on the axis of the East Pacific Rise, around 9° 50’ N. Tube worms, mussels and crabs are abundant and a cloud of tiny amphipods swim in the warm water above the tube worms. Karson et al. 2015, “Discovering the Deep: a photographic atlas of the seafloor and oceanic crust.” Cambridge University Press
Closeup of previous view showing the deep ocean creatures of a vent community on the ocean floor. Karson et al. 2015, “Discovering the Deep: a photographic atlas of the seafloor and oceanic crust.” Cambridge University Press
Lava haystack made of steeply dipping pillow lavas that erupted from a volcanic vent on the southern Juan de Fuca Ridge. Michael Perfit and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Institute
A “snowblower” vent with millions of microbes rising upward in warm vent fluids out of a collapsed lobate lava flow on the Juan de Fuca Ridge during a 2011 eruption. Karson et al. 2015, “Discovering the Deep: a photographic atlas of the seafloor and oceanic crust.” Cambridge University Press
