Seafloor-mapping robot yields a host of new geologic discoveries
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 09:03
in Earth & Climate
MBARIs seafloor mapping robot has had a busy year. It documented a huge lava flow from a three-month-old volcanic eruption off the Oregon coast; it charted mysterious three-kilometer-wide scour marks on the seafloor off Northern California; and it unearthed data that challenge existing theories about one of the largest offshore faults in Central California. MBARI researchers will describe these achievements, and others, in 10 different presentations at this weeks meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.