Sentences with phrase «of hydrothermal»

Weather conditions have constrained the discovery of hydrothermal vents at high latitudes, although there is evidence from water column plumes that vents occur in the Arctic along the Gakkel Ridge [10], the Mohn Ridge, [11] and the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge [12], and in the Southern Ocean, in Antarctica, along the East Scotia Ridge (ESR), in the Scotia Sea [13], in the Bransfield Strait, west of the northern Antarctic Peninsula [14], [15], and along the Pacific - Antarctic Ridge [16].

note 68; Japan based on assumption that Enhanced Geothermal Systems could double 72,000 MW potential, from Hirofumi Muraoka et al., «Assessment of Hydrothermal Resource Potentials in Japan 2008,» Abstract of Annual Meeting of Geo ¬ thermal Research Society of Japan (Kanazawa, Japan: 2008); Hirofumi Muraoka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, e-mail to J. Matthew Roney, Earth Policy Institute, 13 July 2009.

In conclusion, liquid CO2 must be produced through following subseafloor processes: phase separation of hydrothermal fluid due to boiling, formation of solid CO2 - hydrate due to cooling of vapor phase, and melting of the solid CO2 - hydrate to liquid CO2 due to a temperature increase within the sedimentary layer.

Such is the case now with your idea of hydrothermal vents causing the warming.

Scientists at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory have found evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near Antarctica, formerly a blank spot on the map for researchers wanting to learn more about seafloor formation and the bizarre life forms drawn to these extreme environments.

Figure 3 shows a plot of 277 known and inferred of these hydrothermal sites.

The new version of Google Earth allows users to mouse around under and over the seas, click on video clips of hydrothermal vents, read up on which seafoods are being harvested unsustainably, look at marine dead zones and sanctuaries and the like.

«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).»

At Ferraria, the contours of São Miguel's rocky western shore form a well - known piscina, or natural swimming pool, sheltered by basalt crags and fed by a set of hydrothermal vents.

u «The conditions of hydrothermal alteration inferred by analogy with experiments, especially temperature, are at odds with the [observed] mineralogy and preservation of volatile organic compounds.»

Little CTS, Herrington RJ, Maslennikov VV, Zaykov VV (1998) The fossil record of hydrothermal vent communities.

He joined ORNL as a Eugene P. Wigner Fellow in 1983, after completing his Ph.D. studies at Penn State University, and has pioneered the use of hydrothermal experiments and neutron and x-ray scattering methods to address complex problems in geosciences and electrical energy storage.

«The bombing, however locally devastating, creates quite an ample supply of hydrothermal altered rock and hydrothermal systems, worldwide,» says Mojzsis.

«The conditions of hydrothermal alteration inferred by analogy with experiments, especially temperature, are at odds with the

In view of the discovery of hydrothermal vents, it may be possible that life exists on Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, which scientists believe has a water ocean beneath its icy crust.

The discovery of hydrothermal - vent communities showed that it is possible for life to evolve in places without light from the sun, and in other worlds without sufficient light from the parent star.

The team describes newly discovered geological and biological manifestations of hydrothermal activity at two sites on young abyssal hills flanking the East Pacific Rise, a fast - spreading portion of the global mid-ocean ridge system.

Michalski and his team use infrared measurements of hydrothermal minerals as a basis to interpret the detection of important minerals on Mars.

The discovery in 1977 of hydrothermal vent communities and giant tube worms emerges as one of the most exciting finds in recent years.

Among the probe's major discoveries were Titan's liquid methane seas and a global ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus that showed evidence of hydrothermal activity.

The importance of hydrothermal vent circulation is being increasingly realized.

Possibly 90 percent of the hydrothermal cooling of the sea floor occurs in these flanks, and yet these hydrothermal vents are largely unexplored.

From the Tubeworm Barbecue to Clambake, the ghost towns of hydrothermal vents are created, moved aside, and eventually buried.

Finally, scientists have been able to observe firsthand the formation of hydrothermal vents as lava erupted on the sea floor.

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.

One puzzle for scientists to figure out is why the chemistry of hydrothermal vents changes, not only among locations, but over temporal scales as well.

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

Inhibitors degradation and microbial response during continuous anaerobic conversion of hydrothermal liquefaction wastewater — Buchun Sia — Science of The Total Environment

The formation of hydrothermal vents and the communities of organisms that depend on them are an area of intense and exciting research to this day.

Of course, the formation and evolution of a hydrothermal vent system is complicated by the fact that nothing is ever «permanent» on the sea floor.

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.

Subsequent explorations by the deep - sea submersible Alvin revealed not only the presence of hydrothermal vents, but also a startling array of giant worms, clams, and mussels.

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

Marine geological and geophysical exploration methods, ocean ridge processes, continental margin processes, slope stability, marine mineral resources, seafloor hydrothermal systems, acoustic imaging and quantification of hydrothermal flow

After analyzing the water temperatures and the locations of the eggs, the researchers realized that these littered in hot water around known locations of hydrothermal vents, an opening in the sea floor out of which geothermally heated water flows.

Cassini, which began its journey over two decades ago, facilitated the publication of more than 3,000 scientific papers with the data it collected and is responsible for several major discoveries, including liquid methane seas on Titan and evidence of hydrothermal activity on Enceladus.

«We report for the first time, a unique behavior where the deep - sea skate, Bathyraja spinosissima, appears to be actively using the elevated temperature of a hydrothermal vent environment to naturally «incubate» developing egg - cases,» the researchers wrote in the journal Scientific Reports on Feb. 8.

The presence of hydrothermal activity in Enceladus that could last for such a long time has major implications for the potential for life to evolve.

Acoustic visualization and mapping of hydrothermal vent flows on the East Pacific Rise and the Juan de Fuca Ridge.

«Laser Refrigeration of Hydrothermal Nanocrystals in Physiological Media.»

Riftia pachyptila, the weird, iconic giant of hydrothermal vents.

«New kind of hydrothermal vent system found in Caribbean.»

Moreover, Wright has traveled the world to examine fissures along mid-ocean ridges, hoping to unravel the mysteries of hydrothermal vents and underwater volcanic eruptions.

Our observations and models demonstrate an unexpected influence of surface - generated mesoscale eddies in the transport of hydrothermal vent efflux and of vent larvae away from the northern East Pacific Rise.

Matthew Hodgkinson adds: «If more of these unusual sites exist they could be important contributors in the exchange of chemicals and heat between Earth's interior and the oceans, and may be missing from current global assessments of hydrothermal impact on the oceans.»

Thijs Ettema at Uppsala University, Sweden, and his team discovered the new organisms when they analysed DNA extracted from underwater sediment near Loki's Castle, a region of hydrothermal vents along the Arctic mid-ocean ridge (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature14447).

ONE species of deep - sea fish incubates its eggs in a seemingly impossible place: the baking hot rocks of hydrothermal vents.

But the availability of hydrothermal reserves — the low - hanging fruit of the geothermal world — has been greatly reduced as companies have been snapping up prime exploration rights in Nevada and California.

Studies of life in hydrothermal vents and of the chemistry of hydrothermal vents have provided no information about the evolution of RNA and DNA and of their nucleotides from inorganic and simple organic molecules.

Lost Nucleotides Although Alexander S. Bradley's article «Expanding the Limits of Life» provides a fascinating account of the discovery of microbes in a previously unknown kind of hydrothermal vent ecosystem on the seafloor, it does not substantiate his claim that the findings hint that life may have originated in an environment like the Lost City hydrothermal vent.