Sentences with phrase «hydrothermal vents in»

To get a sense of how readily and easily the ocean disperses heat from the Earth's crust, look at underwater volcanoes and hydrothermal vents in other regions of the ocean.

Exploration of deep - sea hydrothermal vents in other sectors of the Southern Ocean, such as the Pacific - Antarctic Ridge [16], are likely to reveal further chemosynthetic communities.

«We had coffee with a self - effacing chap who'd discovered a number of hydrothermal vents in the North Atlantic (he fears the imminent deep - sea mining of polymetallic sulfides in international waters — says we're «right on the edge» of that tech taking off).»

While symbiotic relationships in coral reefs have been known for some time, the discovery of hydrothermal vents in 1977 has spurred an interest in symbiotic relationships, and led to their recognition in many other types of habitats, such as mangrove swamps, mud flats, and sewage outlets.

Despite these puzzles, a great deal has been learned about hydrothermal vents in the past couple decades.

Even after three decades of work, researchers continue to find new hydrothermal vents in remote locations, new species, adaptations, behaviors and microhabitats — some in well - known settings.

Currently, we are exploring several environmental samples retrieved from allover the world - ranging from hydrothermal vents in Japan to hot springs in Yellowstone National Park and New Zealand — for the presence of novel archaeal (and bacterial) lineages using cultivation - independent approaches, such as metagenomics and single cell genomics.

«Making organic molecules in hydrothermal vents in the absence of life.»

Other manned submersibles can not dive deeper than about seven kilometers, says Lutz, who has made more than 85 underwater voyages on board the mini sub Alvin and was part of the first deep - sea exploration of hydrothermal vents in 1979, when he was a postdoc at Yale University.

This alien - like creature is actually an ocean worm (Nereis sandersi) that lives near ocean - floor hydrothermal vents in the Atlantic.

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.

In spring 2015, MBARI researchers discovered a large, previously unknown field of hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of California, about 150 kilometers (100 miles) east of La Paz, Mexico.

A marine biologist describes her upcoming mission to some of the deepest hydrothermal vents in the ocean

Deep - sea hydrothermal vents in the Pescadero Basin emit scalding liquids that form light - colored carbonate spires.

NAMSS undergraduate Darin Taylor (second from left) and OSU researchers investigate hydrothermal vents in Crater Lake, Oregon.

Many of the sub's 4,664 dives have made history: Alvin surveyed Titanic's wreckage in 1986, the first known hydrothermal vents in the 1970s, and the BP oil spill in 2010.

This is a pastel painting of a new species, Xenoturbella profunda, found by researchers in a hydrothermal vent in the Gulf of California.

The deepest of the species, Xenoturbella profunda, was discovered in a 3,700 - meter (12,139 - foot)- deep hydrothermal vent in the Gulf of California.

New fossil evidence suggests the first spark of life may have occurred in a hot spring on land rather than a hydrothermal vent in the deep sea.

Not exact matches

Bacteria thrive virtually everywhere on Earth — from sub-zero temperatures to over 750 degrees F (in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean), and in widely varying oxygen, pressure and nutrient conditions.

Yet we know that life on Earth can thrive in extreme conditions: from the Antarctic (where temperatures can drop to almost -90 °C) to hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor (where temperatures can exceed 460 °C).

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

Following Wednesday's news that there seem to be hydrothermal vents churning away in the warm, alkaline seas inside Saturn's moon Enceladus, researchers announced airtight evidence yesterday that Jupiter's moon Ganymede also has a -LSB-...]

Further calculations by Catling and his team conclude that no abiotic methane sources on a rocky planet could produce enough of the gas to counteract this process — whether it is volcanic outgassing from a planet's interior, chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents, even asteroid impacts.

We found that the particles seen in our images, which were droplets of ocean only hours earlier, bore evidence of large organic molecules and compounds that indicated hydrothermal activity similar to that observed at deep - sea vents on Earth's seafloor.

Since then, many other possible crucibles have been identified: deep underground, in the open ocean, by hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, on a radioactive beach and on the surface of a lump of clay.

Rocks found in Greenland in 2007 suggest hydrothermal vents were present 3.8 billion years ago, just before life is thought to have originated.

These micrometer - scale structures are probably remnants of microorganisms that once lived amidst ancient hydrothermal vents, researchers suggest March 1 in Nature.

SIGNS OF LIFE In rocks left over from ancient hydrothermal vents, these microscopic tubes of hematite, an ore of iron, may be remnants of early microbes.

She describes her project as studying hyperthermophilic archaea, the living occupants of deep - sea hydrothermal vents that survive in extreme heat, pressure, and chemical toxicity.

Biochemists have managed to synthesise 10 of them in experiments that simulate lifeless prebiotic environments, using proxies for lightning, ionising radiation from space, or hydrothermal vents to provide the necessary energy.

Image of a hydrothermal vent field along the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, close to where «Loki» was found in marine sediments.

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.

In Pescadero Basin, however, hydrothermal - vent fluids pass through thick layers of seafloor mud.

These include a groundwater sample found nearly 2 miles deep in a South African gold mine and at hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.

«But, of course, we know there can be carbonaceous materials made in other processes — like in hydrothermal vents — consistent with looking like microfossils that also have some carbon signal.

In 2012, scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) used undersea robots to discover a new hydrothermal vent field along the Alarcón Rise at the southern end of the Gulf of California.

An article just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B describes two remarkably different hydrothermal vent fields discovered in the southern Gulf of California.

This chemical reaction between rock and water occurs, for example, in hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.

Such reactions at hydrothermal vents and in...

They are related to organisms found in deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

Either that it began in deep sea hydrothermal vents, or alternatively that it began on land in a version of Charles Darwin's «warm little pond.»

More than 540 international expeditions sailed to coral reefs, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and open ocean waters to assemble a comprehensive picture of the diversity, habitats, and abundance of animals and microbes living in the sea.

The organisms likely survive using mechanisms similar to the ever - increasing parade of creatures that have been discovered living in the total darkness of hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, deriving energy from minerals in seafloor rocks.

Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.

The second spot was Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano, along with its associated hydrothermal vents, where the team could study the transfer of minerals from beneath the seafloor into the water and access hardy microbes that thrive in the vent fluids, which can reach 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

In the late 1970s, Alvin and his passengers discovered the first known hydrothermal vents, or «black smokers» as they are sometimes called.

Their abundant presence on this peak may be tied to the liquid carbon dioxide spewed by the volcano's hydrothermal vents, which kills virtually all life in the deeper reaches of the crater.

Starting in the 1980s, many scientists argued that life got its start in the scalding, mineral - rich waters streaming out of deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

These delicate carbonate spires formed at an active vent site in the newly discovered Pescadero Basin hydrothermal field.