Sentences with phrase «discovered hydrothermal vents»

A team of geologists led by Henrik Svensen of the University of Oslo discovered hydrothermal vent complexes — thousands of them — dating back to the Paleocene - Eocene boundary.

Not exact matches

The hydrothermal vent system was discovered by researchers from the Centre for Geobiology at University of Bergen (Norway).

The deepest of the species, Xenoturbella profunda, was discovered in a 3,700 - meter (12,139 - foot)- deep hydrothermal vent in the Gulf of California.

In 2012, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) used undersea robots to discover a new hydrothermal vent field along the Alarcón Rise at the southern end of the Gulf of California.

An article just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B describes two remarkably different hydrothermal vent fields discovered in the southern Gulf of California.

The organisms likely survive using mechanisms similar to the ever - increasing parade of creatures that have been discovered living in the total darkness of hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, deriving energy from minerals in seafloor rocks.

In the late 1970s, Alvin and his passengers discovered the first known hydrothermal vents, or «black smokers» as they are sometimes called.

These delicate carbonate spires formed at an active vent site in the newly discovered Pescadero Basin hydrothermal field.

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.

«Deepest high - temperature hydrothermal vents discovered in Pacific Ocean.»

Forty years ago when hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor were first discovered, scientists were amazed to find life where no sunlight penetrated, feeding off of sulfur gases.

The sub brought up a rib from the mammoth carcass, and the researchers soon discovered the fiery plumes to be the gills of two entirely new species, related to worms, that live near deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

When he started working there in 1983, hydrothermal vents had recently been discovered near the Galapagos Islands and molecular biology had just begun its meteoric rise.

Then in 1977, two geochemists — Jack Corliss and John Edmond, diving in the submersible Alvin — discovered the first hydrothermal vent, or volcanic hot spring, on the ocean floor.

Thijs Ettema at Uppsala University, Sweden, and his team discovered the new organisms when they analysed DNA extracted from underwater sediment near Loki's Castle, a region of hydrothermal vents along the Arctic mid-ocean ridge (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature14447).

A mysterious glow from deep - sea hydrothermal vents may provide the light source for a newly - discovered bacterium.

Hydrothermal vents, known as black smokers, were first discovered on Earth in 1977 on the Galápagos Rift [see «The Crest of the East Pacific Rise,» by Ken C. Macdonald and Bruce P. Luyendyk; Scientific American, May 1981].

In 1977, scientists and the world were shocked to discover the first deep - sea hydrothermal vent community at the Galapagos Rift in the eastern Pacific (see a great story on this at NPR here).

According to Reuters and the New York Times, scientists working on the space agency's Cassini mission have discovered that ice plumes on Enceladus contained molecular hydrogen (H2) from hydrothermal vents — the same environment that some researchers believe helped lead to the rise of life here on Earth.

Deep - sea skates, relatives of sharks and rays, were discovered laying their eggs adjacent to hot water from hydrothermal vents.

My most exciting science moment was when our team discovered the Lucky Strike hydrothermal vent site, the third known vent field in the Atlantic.

As if to seal the case, in early 2017, Cassini discovered silica grains and hydrogen gas in the ice plumes above Enceladus, indicating there must be hydrothermal vents on the floor of the subsurface ocean.

Two teams of NASA scientists have discovered evidence that hydrothermal vents on the Saturnian moon of Enceladus show signs of «active hot - water chemistry».

«We had coffee with a self - effacing chap who'd discovered a number of hydrothermal vents in the North Atlantic (he fears the imminent deep - sea mining of polymetallic sulfides in international waters — says we're «right on the edge» of that tech taking off).»

David traveled to the west coast to study the recently discovered deep - sea hydrothermal vents and received his PhD in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

It was first discovered in 1997 in a black smoker hydrothermal vent at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, setting the upper temperature threshold for known life to exist at 113 °C.

In a recent expedition near Antartica, researchers from Oxford discovered dozens of remarkable new species thriving in one of the most extreme environments on the planet, alongside deep - sea hydrothermal vents where temperatures can reach over 750F.