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Machine generated contents note: 1.1.First encounters / Paul J. Fox -- 1.2.Acoustic imaging / Paul J. Fox -- 1.2.1.Echo sounding / Paul J. Fox -- 1.2.2.Satellite oceanography / Paul J. Fox -- 1.2.3.Multibeam sonar / Paul J. Fox -- 1.2.4.Sidescan sonar / Paul J. Fox -- 1.3.Twentieth-century developme...

Contents note continued: 1.6.Ocean drilling: probing into the seafloor / Paul J. Fox -- 1.7.Real-time access to the ocean realm: ocean observatories / Paul J. Fox -- 1.8.Telepresence: seagoing participation and research through the Internet / Paul J. Fox -- 2.1.A new understanding of Earth and ocean...

Contents note continued: 3.1.Seafloor spreading: a first-order global process / Paul J. Fox -- 3.2.Magma budget: key to variability along the MOR system / Paul J. Fox -- 3.3.Diverse morphologies of spreading centers / Paul J. Fox -- 3.3.1.Fast-spreading MORs / Paul J. Fox -- 3.3.2.Slow-spreading MOR...

Contents note continued: 4.1.1.Fluid overturn in the oceanic crust / Paul J. Fox -- 4.1.2.The metamorphosis of seawater to hydrothermal fluids in underwater volcanoes / Paul J. Fox -- 4.1.3.Formation of black smoker chimneys / Paul J. Fox -- 4.1.4.Boiling fluids in and at the seafloor / Paul J. Fox...

Contents note continued: 4.3.Menez Gwen: a shallow vent system on the MAR / Paul J. Fox -- 4.4.Lucky strike: hot-spot influenced vent systems / Paul J. Fox -- 4.4.1.Hydrothermal venting / Paul J. Fox -- 4.4.2.Animal communities / Paul J. Fox -- 4.5.Rainbow: hybrid gabbroic- and ultramafic-hosted ven...

Contents note continued: 4.8.Logatchev: ultramafic-influenced vent sites / Paul J. Fox -- 4.8.1.Hydrothermal venting / Paul J. Fox -- 4.8.2.Life in high CO2, CH4, and H2 systems / Paul J. Fox -- 4.9.South Atlantic: extreme vent temperatures / Paul J. Fox -- 4.9.1.SMAR vent fauna / Paul J. Fox -- 4.1...

Contents note continued: 4.11.3.Boiling fluids / Paul J. Fox -- 4.11.4.Eruptions and biological colonization / Paul J. Fox -- 4.11.5.Wiring an active submarine volcano / Paul J. Fox -- 4.12.Guaymas Basin: venting at sedimented ridges / Paul J. Fox -- 4.12.1.Guaymas Trough and venting / Paul J. Fox -...

Contents note continued: 4.14.5.Tempus Fugit Vent Field / Paul J. Fox -- 4.15.Central Indian Ridge: a new biogeographic province / Paul J. Fox -- 4.15.1.Kairei Vent Field / Paul J. Fox -- 4.15.2.Edmond Vent Feld / Paul J. Fox -- 4.15.3.Kairei versus Edmond fauna / Paul J. Fox -- 5.1.Volcanoes on lan...

Contents note continued: 6.1.Seafloor spreading: one meter at a time / Paul J. Fox -- 6.2.Dikes beneath the seafloor / Paul J. Fox -- 6.2.1.Dikes and sheeted dikes in crust formed at fast to intermediate rates / Paul J. Fox -- 6.2.2.Dikes and sheeted dikes in slow-spreading crust / Paul J. Fox -- 6....

Contents note continued: 7.1.The foundation of the oceanic crust / Paul J. Fox -- 7.2.Plutonic rock exposures on the seafloor / Paul J. Fox -- 7.2.1.Gabbros from fast to intermediate rate MORs / Paul J. Fox -- 7.2.2.Gabbros from slow-spreading MORs / Paul J. Fox -- 7.3.Deformation and metamorphism i...

Contents note continued: 7.5.3.Geological expressions of the Moho / Paul J. Fox -- 7.6.Building the middle to lower oceanic crust / Paul J. Fox -- 8.1.Below the Moho: the oceanic mantle / Paul J. Fox -- 8.2.Mantle rocks / Paul J. Fox -- 8.3.Peridotite exposures on the seafloor / Paul J. Fox -- 8.3.1...