26-Year-Old Mining Plow Trench (IMAGE)

Center for Ocean Solutions

26-Year-Old Mining Plow Trench

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A 26-year-old test mining track (1.5 m wide) created at the seafloor of the CCZ illustrating the extremely slow recovery of these abyssal ecosystems from physical disturbance.

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Copyright Ifremer, Nodinaut cruise (2004)

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