Undersea rocks (IMAGE)

University of Delaware

Undersea rocks

Caption

Jessica Warren, University of Delaware associate professor of geological sciences, aboard the research vessel Atlantis on a scientific mission to collect geological samples from the East Pacific Rise, an undersea ocean ridge where huge slabs of Earth’s crust are moving apart.

Credit

Photos by Thomas Morrow

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License

Public Domain

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