Mysterious Holes Found on the Seafloor at depth of 2,540 meters (Mid-Atlantic Ridge)

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Scientists Are Perplexed by Mysterious Holes They Keep Finding on The Ocean Floor
Fiona MacDonald, Science Alert, July 29, 2022

 

The Case of the Mysterious Holes on the Seafloor
NOAA Ocean Exploration Updates, July 27, 2022

 

Open access paper.

 

Vecchione, M. and Bergstad, O.A., 2022. Numerous sublinear sets of holes in sediment
on the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge point to knowledge gaps in understanding mid-ocean 
ridge ecosystems. Front. Mar. Sci., 31 January 2022 Sec. Deep-Sea Environments and 
Ecology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.812915

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[IsaacTheFossilMan]

Aliens! Joking, joking...

 

That's awesome, isn't the fact that we know more about the moon than the bottom of the ocean?