RISE project
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The RISE Project was a 1979 international marine research project which mapped and investigated seafloor spreading in the Pacific Ocean, at the crest of the East Pacific Rise at 21° north latitude. Us
Black smokers were first discovered on the East Pacific Rise at 21° north latitude.
Riftia tube worm colony at warm vent at Galapagos Rift
Tanya Atwater
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Tanya Atwater is an American geophysicist and marine geologist who specializes in plate tectonics. She is particularly renowned for her early research on the plate tectonic history of western North Am
RISE project
…sunlight, existed at high pressures, and was based on chemicals emitted via volcanism, provided a model for how life could have originated on Earth. Tanya Atwater Robert Ballard…
Tanya Atwater on the Galapagos Propagating Rift expedition, 1982.