Sentences with phrase «seafloor hydrothermal fluid»

The UCSB scientists are making new contributions to this field of inquiry in their studies of seafloor hydrothermal fluid discharge into the Earth's oceans, which has been occurring ever since the oceans first formed four billion years ago.

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

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.

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.