NOAA Ocean Explorer: Pillow lavas and brecia

Pillow lavas and brecia

Pillow lavas and breccia at the base of this slope are overlain with slabby pieces of sulfide formed from hydrothermal venting on the east side of the Southern Explorer rift zone.

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