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Positioned in front of a natural oil seep, this video camera is capturing images of the black oil bubbling up from beneath the sea floor. A light mounted to the frame helps see what is happening in the dark on the sea floor.
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How Oil Feeds the Deep Sea

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Small foram shells in seafloor sediment.
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Little Critters that tell a BIG Story: Benthic Foraminifera and the Gulf Oil Spill

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Forams are tiny single-celled organisms.
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Foraminifera

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A dredge from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can be seen removing a sandbar off of Virginia Beach, VA.
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Dredging Sand

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The High Coast in Sweden and the Kvarken Archipelago in Finland were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2000. The High Coast and the 5,600 islands of the archipelago have been shaped by the combined processes of glaciation, glacial retreat, and the em
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High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago, Sweden & Finland

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Geologist Charles Paull (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute) investigates geologic features similar to pingos on the Arctic Ocean floor where methane bubbles through sediments and forms hundreds of low hills. On land, a pingo is a place where permafrost bulges beneath a dried lake bed like this one in northern Canada.
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Ocean “Pingos”

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Riftia tubeworm (Riftia pachyptila) colonies near hot spring.
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The Microbes That Keep Hydrothermal Vents Pumping

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A brittle star clings to the branches of a deep sea coral
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Brittle Star Coral Mutualism

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Secrets of the Sediments

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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It’s Not Just the Core that Tells the Hole Story

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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It’s Sedimentary, My Dear Watson

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Animals of the Fire Ice

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