Geology of the Pacific Ocean Guinea, and New Zealand lie outside the andesite line. Outside of the andesite line, volcanism is explosive; the Pacific Ring of Fire is the world's foremost belt of explosive volcanism. The Ring of Fire is named after the several hundred active volcanoes that sit above the various subduction zones. In 2009, the deepest undersea eruption ever recorded occurred at the West Mata submarine volcano, a mile beneath the ocean, close to the Tonga-Kermadec Trench, within the Ring of Fire; it was filmed by the US Jason robotic submersible which descended over . The Pacific Ocean is the only ocean which
World Ocean Circulation Experiment follows. Major elements of the WOCE Field Program This list, though not comprehensive, outlines a sampling of the most highly cited articles and books resulting from the WOCE. A. Ganachaud & C. Wunsch Eds. Gerold Siedler, John Gould & John Church D. Stammer, C. Wunsch, R. Giering, C. Eckert, P. Heimbach, J. Marotzke, A. Adcroft, C. N. Hill, J. Marshall A. Ganachaud A. Ganachaud, Carl Wunsch S. E. Wijffels, J. M. Toole, R. Davis World Ocean Circulation Experiment The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) was a component of the international World Climate Research Program, and aimed to establish the role