Figure 1: Location of the MCSC and hydrothermal vent fields.
From: Hydrothermal vent fields and chemosynthetic biota on the world's deepest seafloor spreading centre
Hydrothermal vents on the MCSC. (a) Regional location map of the MCSC. (b) Bathymetry of the MCSC, from shipboard multibeam sonar data (50-m horizontal resolution in shaded relief, against a background of GEBCO contoured bathymetry). (c) Microbathymetry of the VDVF (commemorating geochemist Karen Von Damm, 1955–2008), from Autosub6000 multibeam sonar data. (d) Microbathymetry of the BVF (named in honour of naturalist William Beebe, 1877–1962), from Autosub6000 multibeam sonar data.
