Structure and distribution of cold seep communities along the Peruvian active margin:relationship to geological and fluid patterns

Exploration of the northern Peruvian subduction zone with the French submersible 'Nautile' has revealed benthlc communities dominated by new species of vesicomyid bivalves (Calyptogena spp and Ves~comya sp ) sustained by methane-nch fluid expulsion all along the continental margin, between depths of... View More