A Wild Seep Chase:
Fossil Cold Seeps around the Globe
Utah, USA
Finding great seep fossils with Alan Titus
Let’s call it a day.
Washington State, USA
Jim's favorite beach has (almost) everything:
fossil seeps, whalebones, and wood.
Baja California
Japan
Japan's oldest known cold seep (>100 Mio. yrs.)
Japan's prettiest known cold seep
Seep carbonates facing the Japan Sea Seep carbonates facing the paleontologist
Majima-san recognized this seep first!
Searching for wood- and whalefall
in Japan
Amano-san and Steffen Kiel happy in the rain:
The effort of hammering the fossil whalebone to pieces pays off, as there are molluscs
inside.
Discussing a piece of wood fall with Robert Jenkins
Some sites can be accessed more easily than others. Hikida-san prefers to use a proper hammer.
And more about the deep sea
Deep sea paleontologists
entering the Japanese deep sea research submersible Shinkai 6500
(well, a model)
"Shinkai" means deep sea in Japanese, and this ship can go down to 6500m.