Sentences with phrase «host hydrothermal vents»

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These may also host life forms like those inhabiting hydrothermal vents on Earth.

The network spans the Juan de Fuca plate, which sits between the Pacific and the North American plates and hosts earthquakes and tsunamis, giant clams and whale pods, along with hydrothermal vents and frozen methane deposits.

So the toxin in the fish must come from elsewhere, perhaps hydrothermal vents, which are likely to have high concentrations of mercury and to host sulfate - reducers, he says.

In the deep gold mines of South Africa, and under the sea, at hydrothermal vents where breaks in the fissure of Earth's surface that release geothermally heated waters — hydrogen - rich fluids host complex microbial communities that are nurtured by the chemicals dissolved in the fluids.

Recent research has hinted that neighboring hydrothermal vents might host different arrays of life, but the scene in the Gulf of California, as Goffredi, Johnson and their colleagues described it in the July 26 Proceedings of the Royal Society B (pdf), provides one of the first dramatic examples of this trend.

In each segment we located deep - sea hydrothermal vents hosting high - temperature black smokers up to 382.8 °C and diffuse venting.