Sentences with phrase «giving hydrothermal vents»

Cassini also sniffed out organic compounds and potentially life - giving hydrothermal vents.

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Given developing efforts to mine deep - sea hydrothermal vent fields for precious metals, the scientists involved in this research suggest that conservationists and management agencies need to consider a broader range of factors in their efforts to predict the environmental impacts and the resiliency of affected communities.

Plunging into the ocean off the west coast of Vancouver Island, the more than 800 kilometers of fiber optic cables that connect the research stations stretch across the continental shelf, plummet down the slope and across an abyssal plain, and skirt hydrothermal vents near a mid-ocean ridge where the Earth gives birth to new ocean crust.

Deep - sea hydrothermal vents give rise to some of the most bizarre forms of life on the planet, such as blind albino crabs.

To figure out if hydrothermal vents could have given the evolution of complex life a boost, Braun and his colleagues examined the physics of a theoretical single pore in the rock surrounding a vent.

We were able to show that under [presumed] Enceladus - like conditions and the given environmental parameters, biological methane production did occur in the lab,» and that a «microoorganism from a hydrothermal vent system on Earth could be grown in the presence of [presumed] inhibitors in combination with high pressure.»

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.