Sentences with phrase «undersea hydrothermal vents»
Steaming hot pools and scalding undersea hydrothermal vents provide a cosy habitat for heat - loving extremists.
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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.
Hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor known as «black smokers» may support undersea habitats on Europa, as on Earth (more).
In the greater NZ region, we have undersea hot springs (hydrothermal vents of the Kermadecs), marine hydrocarbon seeps and gas hydrates (offshore eastern North Island — possible analogues for oceans on Icy Worlds), and terrestrial (on land) hot springs in the Taupo Volcanic Zone and elsewhere around the country.
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.