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Peter Lonsdale
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 125
Citations - 9313
Peter Lonsdale is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Seamount & Rift. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 124 publications receiving 8915 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Lonsdale include University of East Anglia & Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Corals on seamount peaks provide evidence of current acceleration over deep-sea topography
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present some of the first quantitative observations of hard-bottom (non-hydrothermal) fauna in the deep sea and show that black corals (antipatharians) and horny corals present on the slopes of a multi-peaked seamount are more abundant near peaks compared with mid-slope sites at corresponding depths.
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Clustering of suspension-feeding macrobenthos near abyssal hydrothermal vents at oceanic spreading centers
TL;DR: A community of abundant suspension-feeding organisms was photographed around an active hydrothermal vent at the Galapagos Rift as mentioned in this paper, and the high standing crop of macrobenthos in these patches probably results from local increases of deep-sea food supply near hydro-thermal plumes in the bottom water.
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Structure and tectonic history of the Eastern Panama basin
Peter Lonsdale,Kim D. Klitgord +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a revised bathymetric and magnetic anomaly chart of the Panama Basin is presented, showing that the eastern part of the basin was formed by highly asymmetric sea-floor spreading along the boundary of the Nazca and Cocos plates 27 to 8 m.y.p.
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Creation of the Cocos and Nazca plates by fission of the Farallon plate
TL;DR: For example, the authors in this paper inferred the nature and history of the Farallon plate fragmentation from structural patterns on the western, Pacific-plate flank of the East Pacific Rise, because the fragmented eastern flank has been subducted.