Sentences with phrase «by hydrothermal activity»

Scientists believe the ocean exists as the result of heat generated by hydrothermal activity the moon's interior.

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This is partially because oxygen, which causes the iron to precipitate, had not yet entered the ocean to great depths, and also because the seafloor at that time contained abundant iron released by bursts of hydrothermal activity.

Heat from the friction of rocks caused by tidal forces could be the «engine» for the hydrothermal activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus.

It is also the main component of naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas reservoirs, and a contribution is also provided by volcanic and hydrothermal activity.

Additional unprocessed images gathered during Cassini's plunge are available online, along with hundreds of thousands collected by the probe during the more than 13 years it has spend studying Saturn and its moons — observations which resulted in the publication of more than 3,000 studies and such discoveries as liquid methane seas at Titan and hydrothermal activity on Enceladus.

We would not store in such regions of high hydrothermal and tectonic activity (having said that - some populations in Italy have CO2 seeping into their houses and gardens, but live with it, and buildings are constructed appropriately to prevent buildup of CO2 indoors; and in Africa even Lake Nyos has now been made safe by the construction of a gas lift siphon to prevent limnic buildup of CO2 in the lake bottom waters (the natural overturning of which caused the «burp» and subsequent deaths - although there were special, unique to that location, meteo.