Here you can see a close up view of one of the “tar lily” “pedals.” The first asphalt extrusion had a number of corals and anemones colonizing it. These organisms allowed our science team to give these features an approximate age on the order of tens to hundreds of years old.
NOAA Okeanos Explorer expedition
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