Sentences with phrase «hot hydrothermal fluid»

As the hot hydrothermal fluid flows through this mud, it «cooks» organic material, forming methane (natural gas) and oil - like hydrocarbons.

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We started finding the same organisms that people were reporting from deep - sea hydrothermal vents [where hot, mineral - laden fluid flows through volcanic rock into the ocean from deep within the Earth].

This is one of the main arguments of proponents of the «hydrothermal hypothesis», according to which gold, chemically dissolved in hot fluid, passed into the sediment layers half a billion years after their deposition.

* David Kring explores the hydrothermal system triggered by the impact, including metasomatism (lithologic chemistry altered by hot fluids), and how the system could have incubated new life as it cooled over thousands of years post-impact.

Eventually, the hot, mineral - rich fluid rises again and gushes out of openings in the seafloor — hydrothermal vents — at temperatures up to about 400 degrees Centigrade.