High-tech seafloor mapping is finding surprising structures everywhere

August 02, 2022

The August 2022 issue of Scientific American magazine features the newly discovered 500 m tall coral reef from the Great Barrier Reef in ‘High-tech seafloor mapping is finding surprising structures everywhere’

Thanks to Mark Fischetti (Scientific American), Maciej Frolow (graphic artist), and the Schmidt Ocean Institute.

3D view of 500m tall reef. Credit to Scientific American

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