NOAA Ocean Explorer: Gulf of Alaska 2004

This image of the sea floor on Chirikof Seamount in the Gulf of Alaska shows the type of rocks we hope to find. Most of the rocks are fist- to head-sized chunks of basalt (a black volcanic rock).

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