Sentences with phrase «investigate hydrothermal vents»

It is nearly impossible to locate and investigate hydrothermal vents because they occur too deep for traditional exploration techniques and emit a soup of hydrogen sulfide and other toxic chemicals.

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

Not exact matches

Although less than 1 % of the sea floor where hydrothermal vents are suspected has been investigated, hundreds of hydrothermal vent fields have been identified around the globe in the past couple decades.

From 1977 through 1979, Alvin made a series of dives to further investigate the nature of these hydrothermal vent communities.

«The first place the ROV landed on the sea floor was on a ridge, in the plume of a nearby hydrothermal vent that we had specifically come to investigate — a black smoker,» says Fisher.