Long-term eruptive activity at a submarine arc volcano

Robert W. Embley (), William W. Chadwick, Edward T. Baker, David A. Butterfield, Joseph A. Resing, Cornel E.J. de Ronde, Verena Tunnicliffe, John E. Lupton, S. Kim Juniper, Kenneth H. Rubin, Robert J. Stern, Geoffrey T. Lebon, Ko-ichi Nakamura, Susan G. Merle, James R. Hein, Douglas A. Wiens and Yoshihiko Tamura
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Robert W. Embley: NOAA/PMEL, 2115 SE O.S.U. Drive
William W. Chadwick: NOAA/PMEL, 2115 SE O.S.U. Drive
Edward T. Baker: NOAA/PMEL
David A. Butterfield: NOAA/PMEL
Joseph A. Resing: NOAA/PMEL
Cornel E.J. de Ronde: Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
Verena Tunnicliffe: University of Victoria
John E. Lupton: NOAA/PMEL, 2115 SE O.S.U. Drive
S. Kim Juniper: GEOTOP Research Centre; Université du Québec à Montréal
Kenneth H. Rubin: University of Hawaii
Robert J. Stern: University of Texas at Dallas
Geoffrey T. Lebon: NOAA/PMEL
Ko-ichi Nakamura: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST Tsukuba Central 7
Susan G. Merle: NOAA/PMEL, 2115 SE O.S.U. Drive
James R. Hein: US Geological Survey
Douglas A. Wiens: Washington University
Yoshihiko Tamura: (IFREE) Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Nature, 2006, vol. 441, issue 7092, 494-497

Abstract: Bubbling under Three quarters of the Earth's volcanic activity takes place beneath the oceans. We rarely know when and where eruptions occur, and most observations have been indirect, made from surface vessels or after the eruption had ended. Now Embley et al. report direct observations and sampling of an active eruption at a submarine arc volcano in the Northern Mariana Islands northeast of Guam. Remote-controlled submersibles were used first to identify an active hydrothermal plume at a depth of 540 metres near the summit of a recently mapped submarine volcano. Then volcanic activity was monitored in March 2004 and October 2005. Long-term eruptive activity has produced an unusual chemical environment and an ecosystem perhaps distinctive of active arc and hotspot volcanoes.

Date: 2006
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