Asphalt volcano in the Gulf of Mexico
MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
In many areas of the Gulf of Mexico asphalt seeps from the sea floor and offers a biotope for diverse organisms. Pogonophores are just some of the creatures that settle on the barren seeming asphalt. For higher resolutions and more photos please contact the Public Relations-Team at the MARUM.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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Image
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JPG
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84.2 KB
Width
500 px
Height
375 px
Aspect
4:3
Exposure
8 mm f/2.6 1/60 s ISO 100
Coordinates
29.1522, -91.0107
Tint
Blackish blue
Submitted
8 October 2007
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