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Photographs, CT scans and stereomicroscope images of cores from Loki's Castle

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Photographs, CT scans and stereomicroscope images of cores ROV22PC01 (a) and ROV22PC04 (b) illustrating the discrimination between sediments which were accumulated dominantly through mass wasting (a) and sediments accumulated through plume fallout (b). The insets in (a) show a 5 cm piece of chimney which was removed from ROV22PC01, along with a well crystalline piece of pyrrhotite. The inset in (b) shows clumps of fine grained sediments that have accreted in a laminated manner.

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Public Domain.