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. 2021 Sep 28;9:e69955. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.9.e69955

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Klaas Gerdes, Terue Cristina Kihara, Pedro Martínez Arbizu, Thomas Kuhn, Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera, Christopher L Mah, Jon L Norenburg, Thomas D Linley, Kate Shalaeva, Enrique Macpherson, Dennis Gordon, Sabine Stöhr, Charles G Messing, Simon Bober, Theresa Guggolz, Magdalini Christodoulou, Andrey Gebruk, Antonina Kremenetskaia, Andreas Kroh, Karen Sanamyan, Kathrin Bolstad, Leon Hoffman, Andrew J Gooday, Tina Molodtsova

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Figure 1. — Locations of imagery stations within the INDEX exploration area. a) Overview map of the southwestern Indian Ocean showing the ridge spreading axes (red line). b) Cluster 1-12 of the GLA for polymetallic massive sulphide exploration. The red boxes show the areas enlarged in C-F; each includes imagery transects conducted in each area. c) MESO area and Cluster 4. d) Cluster 5 and 6. e) Cluster 8 and 9. f) Cluster 11 and 12. Bathymetry data provided by the Federal Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resources (BGR).