Sentences with phrase «volcanic gas vents»
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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.
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For instance, some archaea that live in volcanic vents that emit sulfurous gases sometimes get spewed out and have to survive sans sulfur.
Life on Earth likely emerged in the deep ocean, where simple organisms fed off toxic gas from volcanic vents.
The only place on Earth that they are known to form is at fumaroles, volcanic vents that release hot gases.
Through these vents, volcanic activity in Earth's interior releases hot gases and dissolved minerals into the ocean and heats the water to temperatures of nearly 700 degrees Fahrenheit.
A 240 - foot - tall volcanic island in the South Pacific was still venting sulfur gases in December 2006, four months after it emerged from the sea.
Some of the gas remained trapped in crystals near the volcanic vents, which were analyzed in the WSU study by doctoral student Klarissa Davis, Michael Rowe, now at the University of Auckland, and Owen Neill, now at the University of Michigan.
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.
Most of the lava's gases were released during the eruptions, but some of the gas remained trapped in crystals near the volcanic vents.
At Champagne Reef, gasses escaping from deep volcanic vents filter through the sea floor to envelop snorkelers in streams of effervescent bubbles.
They are produced from SO2 by reactions in the atmosphere - either from gases erupted naturally out of volcanic vents, or from the smokestacks of coal - fired power stations.