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

[Paul]

Scientists Are Perplexed by Mysterious Holes They Keep Finding on The 
Ocean Floor
Fiona MacDonald, Science Alert, July 29, 2022
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-perplexed-by-mysterious-holes-on-the-ocean-floor

The Case of the Mysterious Holes on the Seafloor
NOAA Ocean Exploration Updates, July 27, 2022
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/news/oer-updates/2022/mysterious-holes-seafloor/mysterious-holes-seafloor.html

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
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.812915/full

Yours,

Paul H.