PI Country:
USA
PI Country:
China
PI Country:
Germany
PIs:
Henry Dick, Huaiyang Zhou and Juergen Koepke
Institution:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, State Key Laboratory for Marine Geology of Tongji University, Leibniz University Hannover
Ocean:
Indian
Region:
SWIR
Year:
2019
Start Date:
February 2019
End Date:
March 2019 The principle objective of the cruise is to investigate the geology of a major ocean hot spot associated rise on an ultraslow spreading ridge and compare it to the Icelandic and Azores Rises. Whereas the Icelandic Rise is commonly believed to be supported by enhanced asthenospheric flow and a large mantle plume, existing data (Zhou & Dick, 2013 ) suggest that the Marion Rise is a region of thin or missing crust, punctuated by large local ridge volcanoes.
Ship:
R/V Thomas G. Thompson, RV Sonne
Equipment:
AUV Sentry, ROV
Contact:
hdick@whoi.edu 
