Sentences with phrase «about hydrothermal»

Despite these puzzles, a great deal has been learned about hydrothermal vents in the past couple decades.

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Those analyses are likely to take several weeks, but should provide important insights about the composition of the global ocean beneath Enceladus» surface and any hydrothermal activity occurring on the ocean floor.

In spring 2015, MBARI researchers discovered a large, previously unknown field of hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of California, about 150 kilometers (100 miles) east of La Paz, Mexico.

The entire ocean volume circulates through hydrothermal vents about every 40 million years.

«When people were thinking about ocean chemistry, it was always centered on hydrothermal flow, but there was little data,» Johnson says.

Dr Jeff Hawkes, the lead author of this study, from the NOC said: «There has been a long outstanding question about whether hydrothermal vents are a source or sink of organic carbon to the oceans.

To study the movement of vent products, the researchers set up sediment traps and current meters near the hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge located about 800 kilometers off the southern coast of Mexico and a mile and a half below sea level.

We're talking about minutes in hydrothermal liquefaction and a few days in an anaerobic digester.»

To study the animal, Cary goes on cruises to hydrothermal vents like the one located in the Pacific Ocean's Mid-Oceanic Ridge, about 1,200 miles off the coast of Costa Rica.

Other manned submersibles can not dive deeper than about seven kilometers, says Lutz, who has made more than 85 underwater voyages on board the mini sub Alvin and was part of the first deep - sea exploration of hydrothermal vents in 1979, when he was a postdoc at Yale University.

Studies of life in hydrothermal vents and of the chemistry of hydrothermal vents have provided no information about the evolution of RNA and DNA and of their nucleotides from inorganic and simple organic molecules.

New research is revealing details about how the exoskeleton of a certain type of deep - sea shrimp allows the animal to survive scalding hot waters in hydrothermal vents thousands of feet under water.

The discovery of evidence for ancient sea - floor hydrothermal deposits on Mars identifies an area on the planet that may offer clues about the origin of life on Earth.

' Undersea hydrothermal conditions on Mars may have existed about 3.7 billion years ago; undersea hydrothermal conditions on Earth at about that same time are a strong candidate for where and when life on Earth began.

Eventually, the hot, mineral - rich fluid rises again and gushes out of openings in the seafloor — hydrothermal vents — at temperatures up to about 400 degrees Centigrade.

Scientists at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory have found evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near Antarctica, formerly a blank spot on the map for researchers wanting to learn more about seafloor formation and the bizarre life forms drawn to these extreme environments.

Scientists are in the early stages of building a fiber optic network on the seafloor for observing, in real time, deep - sea hydrothermal vents — places where super-heated water and minerals spew from Earth's crust offering clues about how life on the planet may have began.

Given the more than 3 million volcanoes worldwide indicated by the work of Hillier & Watts (2007), one might be prone to wonder about the statistical significance of Gerlach's seven subaerial volcanoes and three hydrothermal vent sites.