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Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition

Description

Pacific Ring of Fire Expedition. A comparision of Crater Lake andWest Rota calderas. Note the similar sized calderas of these volcanoes(same scale for both images). The Crater Lake imagery is a digital elevationmodel. The West Rota caldera imagery is a bathymetric grid.

Credit

Pacific Ring of Fire 2004 Expedition. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration; Dr. Bob Embley, NOAA PMEL, Chief Scientist

Display Date

2004 April

Location

Mariana Arc region, Western Pacific Ocean

Category

Voyage to Inner Space
Ocean Exploration Collection
Modern Expeditions
Ring of Fire

Keywords

Ocean Exploration