Kermadec Arc

Susan Merle
Senior Research Assistant
CIMRS Program, Oregon State University
NOAA Vents Program, PMEL

Kyle Carothers
Ocean Explorer Web Site Production Manager
NOAA, Office of Ocean Exploration

Join the New Zealand American Submarine Ring of Fire 2007 (NZASRoF'07) expedition as we explore the Brothers Volcano on the Kermadec Arc, and the barkarc Ngatoro Rift Basins.

The Kermadec Arc exploration site brings scientific discovery to the Web via a series of computer animations of the sea floor. Click on a thumbnail or area of the map to view a virtual fly-through of the indiviual sites, photo's and video.

			Take a virtual tour of the NZASRoF'07 Kermadec Arc submarine volcanoes! (Quicktime, 1.3 Mb.)
			Take a virtual tour of Brothers submarine volcano! (Quicktime, 1 Mb.)
			Take a virtual tour of the Ngatoro Rift Basin! (Quicktime, 1 Mb.)
			Take a virtual tour of the Leg 2 NZASRoF'05 Kermadec Arc submarine volcanoes! (Quicktime, 2.3 Mb.)

• The high-resolution EM300 bathymetry data are proprietary, courtesy of New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). Data resolution is about 25 meters.
  
  
• The low-resolution background bathymetry used in some fly-throughs and overall maps are courtesy of Smith and Sandwell, 1997. [Smith, W. H. F. and Sandwell, D. T. (1997). Global seafloor topography from satellite altimetry and ship depth soundings. Science, 277:195-196.] Satellite altimetry data resolution is about 3,500 meters.
  

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