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Split Seamount
Name Alias(es):
Split Volcano
Surveyor Seamount
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Vent Sites:
Activity:
Maximum Temperature:
Latitude:
47.6400
Longitude:
-128.9667
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Region:
National Jurisdiction:
Maximum or Single Reported Depth (mbsl):
2350
Minimum Depth (mbsl):
Tectonic setting:
Full Spreading Rate (mm/a):
56.2
Host Rock:
NotProvided
Deposit Type:
NFS, Fe & Mn crusts
Notes on Vent Field Description:
northern Cobb segment; ROV Jason 2 dive in 2007 ended due to time constraints - surveyed area inactive; NEMO 2007 cruise report says "active venting had been photographed by camera tows"; various Fe silicate (nontronite) & Mn oxide crust deposits on off-axis seamounts and along fault boundaries (Cobb Offset)
Notes Relevant to Biology:
NotProvided
Year and How Discovered (if active, visual confirmation is listed first):
1990 camera tow (need reference to check if activity confirmed)
Discovery References (text):
(1980 dredged deposit only) Murnane & Clague, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 65, 343-352, 1983, Nontronite from a low-temperature hydrothermal system on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, doi:10.1016/0012-821X(83)90172-3
NEED CITATION for 1990 camera tow.
Other References (text):
(towed thermistors indicated geothermal region only) Crane et al., J. Geophys. Res., 90, 727-744, 1985, The Distribution of Geothermal Fields on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, doi:10.1029/JB090iB01p00727
Cruise AT15-21, Chief Sci Chadwick, dive J2-295 (http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/nemo/NeMO2007-cruise-report.pdf).
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