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Marker 33 Virtual Site
Marker 33 location map Marker 33 location map (detail)

 

Marker 33 and adjacent Cloud Vent are diffuse vent sites located on Axial’s south rift zone, in the central collapsed portion of the 1998 lava flow. At Marker 33, the seafloor is relatively flat consisting of thick slabs of sheet flow lava. Vent fluid escapes along a 5-m long crack where one lava slab is buckled and tilted up slightly. The area around the vent is highlighted by white mats of microbial growth. More ...
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Fly-through movie
The Quicktime movie below allows you to get a virtual tour of the site by moving through it. Click the button at the lower left to play the movie. Both the fly-through movie and the panorama may take some time to load, so please be patient.

 

Panorama
The Quicktime VR panorama below gives you a 360° view of the site. Click and drag your mouse inside the panorama window to look in different directions. The buttons in the bottom left zoom in or out and show hotlinks to video clips.
Click on ROPOS to go between sites.

 
If you do not see two movie windows or Quicktime icons above, go to the Help page.
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Video clips embedded within the panorama:
Marker 33 area over time | Marker 33 site overview | Marker 33 soon after the eruption
Cloud vent | Cloud overview | Scaleworm | Bag creatures | Elevator | NeMO Net camera
Nascent tubeworms colonizing new lava | Scaleworm attacking a tubeworm | Bacterial trap

Other Virtual Sites:
ASHES | CASM | Rumbleometer | The Pit | Castle

Related concepts:
Mid-ocean ridges | seafloor spreading | seamounts & hot spots | calderas | Axial volcano
Hydrothermal vents | fluid paths | focused vents | diffuse vents | snowblowers
Animal Gallery | chemosynthesis | biological colonization of new lava
NeMO at Axial | the 1998 eruption | the rumbleometer story | lava flow animation
Lava morphology | sheet flows | pillow lava | lava pillars

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