image: A broadband seismometer (titanium sphere) and hydrophone (tripod) lifted from a tool basket for installation on the seafloor of Axial Seamount at a depth of ~1,500 m beneath the oceans' surface. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 16, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by W.S.D. Wilcock at University of Washington in Seattle, Wash., and colleagues was titled, "Seismic constraints on caldera dynamics from the 2015 Axial Seamount eruption." view more
Credit: University of Washington/OOI-NSF/CSSF-ROPOS