M81-2a

ROV KIEL 6000

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Expedition M81-2a with RV METEOR: CLIP - Caribbean Large Igneous Provinces

Chief Scientists: Prof. Dr. Kaj Hoernle / Dr. Reinhard Werner

Expedition M81-2a with RV Meteor was conducted between the 11th and the 29th of March, 2010. It led from Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago through the Caribbean to Willemstad, Curaçao. The major objective of the cruise was to identify the plate tectonic origin of the Caribbean plate by means of magnetic soundings, profiling and sampling of hard rocks by ROV and dredges. Further objectives were the documentation of internal structures of this Igneous Province and the chronology of magmatic events during its formation as well as of the chronological sequences of the internal deformation.

ROV KIEL 6000 was deployed to sample selected profiles stratigraphically controlled.

Publications to which ROV KIEL 6000 contributed.

Photos (unless otherwise noted): ROV-Team GEOMAR; for enquiries on utilisation of image material please contact Public Relations Dept GEOMAR or Dr. Friedrich Abegg.

Submarine Seascapes: Lava with manganese crust

Sedimentary rocks (consolidated clays)

Young corals on sedimentary rocks (possibly solid carbonates)

Current-induced ripples at a slope

Coarse grained Gabbro (sub-volcaniv intrusive rocks)

Pyroxen-containing lava with manganese crusts

Working at the seafloor: ORION 'picking' consolidated carbonates

Strongly altered lava fragment (part of a pillow lava)

ORION with chisel

Strongly altered lava fragment

RIGMASTER and ORION with a volcaniclastic rock (Tuff)

Fauna at the seafloor: Scale worm

Buried Anthozoa

Sponge on strongly altered lava with manganese crust

Coral (cf. bamboo coral) wiht galatheid crab

"Trumpet sponge" (cf. Stylissa sp.)

Scientific Head
Dr. Friedrich Abegg
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wischhofstr. 1-3
D-24148 Kiel
Technology & Logistics Centre
Tel.: 0049 431 600-2134
Fax: 0049 431 600-2680
E-mail: fabegg(at)geomar.de

Technical Head
Martin Pieper (Dipl. Ing.)
Technology & Logistics Centre
Tel.: 0049 431 600-1688
Fax: 0049 431 600-2680
E-mail: mpieper(at)geomar.de

Scientific Advisor
Prof. Dr.Colin Devey
FB4: Dynamics of the Ocean Floor
Tel.: 0049 431 600-2257
Fax: 0049 431 600-2924
E-mail: cdevey(at)geomar.de

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