Sentences with phrase «hydrothermal chimneys»

In strip - mining a bit less than 30 acres of seafloor, Nautilus will consume hydrothermal chimneys and wipe out the clusters of snails and barnacles, crab and shrimp that are nourished by their sulfide emanations.

Hydrothermal chimneys were first observed in 1979, two years after hot springs were discovered close to the Galapagos Islands.

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The Faulty Towers complex is the largest array of chimneys in the Mothra hydrothermal vent field.

Data from the AUV also showed slightly warmer water over some of the spires, which implied that they might be active hydrothermal - vent chimneys.

Clague's and Vrijenhoek's dives revealed at least three different types of hydrothermal vents in the southern Gulf of California — black smokers, carbonate chimneys, and hydrothermal seeps.

Their chemical gardens at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, have already confirmed that hydrothermal vents can provide that all - important proton gradient, measured as electrical potential between the inside and outside of a chimney.

Plumes of warm water laden with minerals create chimney - like «hydrothermal vents.»

Geologists now know that the Gakkel Ridge is an active zone of slow spreading tectonic plates with massive amounts of activity including explosive emissions of super carbonated magma that have blown the tops off dozens of undersea mountains, produced mineral / metal riches from extensive hydrothermal vents throughout the range and holds sea life around smoker chimneys with abundant hydrogen - sulfide based ecosystems.

We determined the chemical and isotopic compositions of the liquid CO2 found on Yonaguni IV knoll hydrothermal site, as well as those in hydrothermal fluid venting from the surrounding chimneys.