El Gordo Hydrothermal Vent
El Gordo, at International District, is a site for OOI-RSN instrumentation. Here, its venting hydrothermal fluid can be seen. The brown tubes are stressed tubeworms covered in filamentous bacteria. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1719; V14.
El Gordo, at International District, is a site for OOI-RSN instrumentation. Here, its venting hydrothermal fluid can be seen. The brown tubes are stressed tubeworms covered in filamentous bacteria. Photo credit: NSF-OOI/UW/CSSF; Dive R1719; V14.
- Type: Image
- Size: 4 mb
- Date: 2014-07-21
