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Hikurangi Margin

Map showing the location of the Hikurangi Margin.

Map showing the location of the Hikurangi Margin. Ancient cold-seep sites onshore are shown along with the location of offshore cold-seep carbonate deposits.

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Rights: Greinert, J., et al., Methane seepage along the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand: Overview of studies in 2006 and 2007 and new evidence from visual, bathymetric and hydroacoustic investigations, Marine Geology (2010), doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.01.017
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