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    1998 NeMO Cruise
    Axial 1998 "Eruption"

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    To establish a multi-year monitoring and sampling program on Axial Volcano in order to examine the relationships between volcanic events and the chemistry and distribution of hydrothermal vents and the biologic communities that depend on them.


    NeMO Observatory Bathymetric map, Vent sites and Instrumentation
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    "I thought that the formation of these new islands was finished."
    "Nothing is ever finished in volcanic areas,"
    answered Captain Nemo,
    "and the earth is continually being altered by underground fire."

    Projessor Aronnax to Captain Nemo

    from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
    translated by Anthony Bonner, first published in 1870

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