Pillow lavas and breccia at the base of this slope are overlain with slabby pieces of sulfide formed from hydrothermal venting on the east side of the Southern Explorer rift zone. Image courtesy of Submarine Ring of Fire 2002, NOAA/OER.
Pillow lavas and breccia at the base of this slope are overlain with slabby pieces of sulfide formed from hydrothermal venting on the east side of the Southern Explorer rift zone. Image courtesy of Submarine Ring of Fire 2002, NOAA/OER.