Title: Elevator recovery on Dive 174
Author: David Randle
Category: INST
Data Source: REVEL 2005
File Size: 774 kb
File Type: Image (JPG or GIF)
Date Catalogued: Saturday, September 17, 2005


The elevator brings back 4 slow flow meters that were measuring diffuse flow percolating through the sediments close to the subduction zone. The diffuse flow is the result of fluids being expelled from the thick layer of sediments by the pressure of the oceanic plate subducting under the North American continent.