Sentences with phrase «floor around hydrothermal vents»

The RNA world might have been born in clay, Ferris argued, perhaps the clay that coated the ocean floor around hydrothermal vents.

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A hotspot on the ocean floor could become a living laboratory where marine scientists can study underwater volcanoes and the weird life that clusters around the plumes of superheated water spurting from hydrothermal vents.

Potential Europan habitats include deep - sea colonies based on heat - loving bacteria like those found around hydrothermal vents on Earth's ocean floor.

After analyzing the water temperatures and the locations of the eggs, the researchers realized that these littered in hot water around known locations of hydrothermal vents, an opening in the sea floor out of which geothermally heated water flows.

Although less than 1 % of the sea floor where hydrothermal vents are suspected has been investigated, hundreds of hydrothermal vent fields have been identified around the globe in the past couple decades.

The revolutionary discovery in the 1970s of a thriving complex marine ecosystem around the hydrothermal vents of the Galapagos Rift on the ocean floor of the eastern Pacific forever changed our understanding of habitability showing that life could also arise and flourish in the complete absence of sunlight in conditions that were utterly toxic to any other life forms on Earth.

It offers an interactive exploration of the ocean floor in and around a hydrothermal vent.