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Expedition SO229 with RV SONNE: VANUATU/COVOLVE

Chief Scientist: Dr. Karsten Haase, FAU Erlangen

Expedition SO229 with RV SONNE took place between June and July and led to Vanuatu in the Western Pacific Ocean. 

Aims of the VANUATU/COVOLVE expedition were the investigation of the magmatic evolution of the Vanuatu Island-Arc- and Back-Arc-Systems, the identification of different magma sources as well as the search for hydrothermal vent fields in order to establish relationships between volcanic, hydrothermal and biolgoical processes.

ROV KIEL 6000 was one of the deployed tools and completed 11 scientific dives in water depths of more than 3300 m. Main tasks were geological sampling as well as the exploration of the seaflor with respect to hydrothermal activity. 

Publications to which ROV KIEL 6000 contributed.
Photos (unless otherwise noted): ROV-Team GEOMAR; for enquiries on utilisation of image material please contact Public Relations Dpt. GEOMAR oder Dr. Friedrich Abegg.

 

Deposits of large pumice knobbles in the Epi Caldera.
Fractures at the eastern wall of the Futuna Trough.
Uppermost part of a crustal profile.
Sampling of a piece of fresh lava.
Lava flow at Nifonea Ridge (Vate Trough) with jumbled sheet flow and a single pillow.
Fractured lava at the western wall of Vate Trough with columnar jointing and thin sediment cover.
Jointing of pillow/lobate lava at the Vate Trough.
Large pillows at Nifonea Ridge.
Jumbled sheet flow with thin sediment cover at Nifonea Ridge (Vate Trough).
FeOOH crusts /vents at the marginal zones of the Nifonea hydrothermal vent field.
Active chimney at the Nifonea hydrothermal vent field.
Active black smoker with two phase behaviour ('white' flame).
Temperature measurements at a black smoker at the Nifonea hydrothermal vent field.
Shrimps and small crabs sitting on a small chimney discharging strongly shimmering water at the Nifonea hydrothermal vent field.
Tube worms and mussels close to an outlet of more diffuse high-temperature fluids.
One of the typical and common white-pinkish crabs sitting on glassy lava with microbial coating at the Nifonea HVF.
Peripheral region of the main Nifonea hydrothermal vent field with diffuse venting and associated fauna (numerous barnacles, some mussles and crabs).
Active black smoker at the Nifonea hydrothermal vent field with associated vent fauna (barnacles, tube worms, mussels, shrimps and crabs).

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    Scientific Head 

    Dr. James Taylor
    GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
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    Technology & Logistics Centre
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    E-mail: jtaylor(at)geomar.de   


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    Martin Pieper (Dipl. Ing.)
    Technology & Logistics Centre
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    Fax: 0049 431 600-2680
    E-mail: mpieper(at)geomar.de 

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