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News Release 18-103
Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior
Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag water into the deep Earth
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Recovery of seismographs on uninhabited islands in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Credit: Douglas Wiens
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The research vessels Thompson and Langseth in port at the Guam Naval Base before the cruise began.
Credit: Douglas Wiens
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Deployment of an ocean bottom seismograph from the research vessel Thompson.
Credit: Douglas Weins
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Night deployment of an ocean bottom seismograph.
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Ocean bottom seismograph deployment from the research vessel Thompson.
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Scientists recording data in a lab aboard the research vessel Thompson during a project cruise.
Credit: Douglas Wiens
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