Sources:

• InterRidge Vents Database Version 2.0, credit: S.E. Beaulieu, 2010, InterRidge Global Database of Active Submarine Hydrothermal Vent Fields: prepared for InterRidge, Version 2.0. World Wide Web electronic publication; current version 3.4 available online at http://vents-data.interridge.org
• Exclusive Economic Zones Version 5, credit: Flanders Marine Institute, 2009; current version 10 available online at http://www.marineregions.org/
• Plate boundaries (Ridge & Transform, Trench), credit:  University of Texas PLATES Project.