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Description
The contact point between the base of a carbonate tower and theunderlying rock. Numerous white squiggles are possibly small tube worms. Thewhite balls could be either some form of animal life or perhaps some type ofmineral precipitate. See expl2263.
Credit
IFE, URI-IAO, UW, Lost City Science Party; NOAA/OAR/OER; The Lost City 2005 Expedition
Display Date
2005 July
Location
Atlantic Ocean, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Keywords
Ocean Exploration