Fig. 4: ROV photographs from Tow Cam, the vent field with the greatest ash thickness.
From: Deep seafloor hydrothermal vent communities buried by volcanic ash from the 2022 Hunga eruption
A Thick ash deposits, B thick ash deposits with patches of empty shells and white microbial mat, likely sulfur-oxidizing bacteria. A new marker deployed on TN401 is also visible, C, D empty shells of dead chemosymbiotic snails and mussels among living crustaceans, anemones, and other grazers, scavengers, and filter feeders, E, F hydrothermal chimneys covered in white microbial mats and surrounded by ash deposits.
