Trapped OBS (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Trapped OBS

Caption

One of the ocean bottom seismometers trapped in fresh lava on the East Pacific Rise. The flag on top is used to help locate the device when it surfaces.

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, National Science Foundation, Ridge 2000

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