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InterRidge
Initiative concerned with facilitating international and multi-disciplinary research associated with mid-ocean ridges.
www.interridge.org
Dive and Discover: Expeditions to the Seafloor
Designed to immerse students in the process of deep-sea research and exploration.
www.divediscover.whoi.edu
NEPTUNE: A Fiber Optic Telescope to Inner Space
Working to establish a network of underwater observatories within the depths of the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
www.neptune.washington.edu
CoAxial Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge
Includes NE Pacific seafloor data and images.
www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/coax/coax.html
Ridge 2000 (4)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Mid_Ocean_Ridges/Ridge_2000
PETDB: Petrological Database of the Ocean Floor
Contains chemistry data and information about the sampling expiditions.
www.petdb.org
Mid-Ocean Ridge Processes Group - University of Washington
Includes information about there Mixing Zephyr Program, Endeavour Observatory, and Northeast Pacific Time-series Undersea Networked Experiments.
www2.ocean.washington.edu
Lo`ihi Seamount: Hawai`i's Youngest Submarine Volcano
USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory fact sheet for the Lo`ihi Seamount, the active volcano built on the seafloor south of Kilauea about 30 km from shore.
hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanoes/loihi/main.html
Volcanic Topography at the Mid-Atantic Ridge
Features high resolution side-scan sonar images of the axial zone of the slow-spreading Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR).
www.gly.bris.ac.uk/www/teach/virtrips/MAR/mar.html
Descent to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Follows the Scripps research team as they guide the deep submersible Alvin to probe the depths of the North Atlantic.
earthguide.ucsd.edu/mar
Mid-Ocean Ridge, The
Scientific American article featuring maps which reveal how segments of the ridge form and evolve.
www.geol.ucsb.edu/faculty/macdonald/ScientificAmerican/sciam.html
Cause of Mid Ocean Ridges, The
Advancing the thin plate hypothesis.
members.tripod.com/~charles_W/ridge.html
DeRidge: German Mid-Ocean Research
German section of InterRidge.
www.ifm-geomar.de/index.php?id=1821
Volcanoes of the Southern East Pacific Rise: A New View of Crustal Accretion and Ridge Segmentation at Super-fast Spreading Rates
Report by Scott M. White, Ken C. Macdonald, and Rachel M. Haymon.
www.geocities.com/seafloorscott/SEPR.htm
Mid-Ocean Ridge
Provides an introduction to the continuous chain of volcanoes on the ocean floor where lava erupts and the crust of the Earth is created.
www.divediscover.whoi.edu/ridge
East Pacific Rise 9°-10° Online Data Archive
From the Hawaii Mapping Research Group.
www.soest.hawaii.edu/hmrg/Mesotech/index.htm
NATURE: Dive To The Abyss
Explores the ocean deep in Monterey Bay Canyon off the California coast; the Cayman Wall at Grand Cayman in the Caribbean; and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/abyss
Submarine Volcanoes, Vents, Ridges, Eruptions
Learn about where submarine volcanoes and volcanic vents occur along the ocean floor and how the ocean's water affects their behavior. The USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory also provides maps and data for a number of underwater volcanoes, seamounts, ridges, and vent fields.
vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/SubmarineVolcano

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