A Serendipitous Seafloor Sample

Photo slideshow: How a pillow was transformed into a table

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This research was funded by the National Science Foundation. The pillow lava display and coffee table were funded by the Deep Ocean Exploration Institute at WHOI.

Related Links

Expedition to the Northern Galapagos
Expedition blog from 2010
http://galapagos-expedition.blogspot.com/

Expedition to the Galapagos Rift 2001
Dive and Discover, Expedition 5
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/expedition5/index.html

Dan Fornari
http://www.whoi.edu/profile/dfornari/

Adam Soule
http://www.whoi.edu/sbl/liteSite.do?litesiteid=64953&articleId=120229

Mark Kurz
http://www.whoi.edu/profile.do?id=mkurz

Karen Harpp
http://www.uidaho.edu/sci/geology/faculty/karenharpp

Originally published: July 5, 2012