Hydrothermal vents are fissures on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges. They are commonly found near volcanically active places...
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The Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents (also known as the Main Endeavour Field, MEF, or EHV) are a group of hydrothermal vents in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean...
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Abiogenesis (section Deep sea hydrothermal vents)
naturally occurring proton gradient near a deep-sea white smoker hydrothermal vent. Earth remains the only place in the universe known to harbor life...
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The hydrothermal vent microbial community includes all unicellular organisms that live and reproduce in a chemically distinct area around hydrothermal vents...
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The Beebe Hydrothermal Vent Field (abbreviated BVF, also known as the Piccard Vent Field) is the world's deepest known hydrothermal vent site and is located...
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The Lost City Hydrothermal Field, often referred to simply as Lost City, is an area of marine alkaline hydrothermal vents located on the Atlantis Massif...
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Supercritical fluid (redirect from Supercritical hydrothermal fluids)
on Earth, such as the water issuing from black smokers, a type of hydrothermal vent. SCFs are used as a substitute for organic solvents in a range of...
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Scaly-foot gastropod (category Animals living on hydrothermal vents)
hydrothermal-vent snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Peltospiridae. This vent-endemic gastropod is known only from deep-sea hydrothermal...
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of such hydrothermal vents. Serpentinization alone cannot provide the heat supply for these vents, which must be driven mostly by...
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Abyssal plain (section Hydrothermal vents)
and nutrition, such as occurs in chemosynthetic archaea found near hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. The aphotic zone can be subdivided into three different...
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(200 m) high and were formed in July 1996 when its predecessor, Pele's Vent, a hydrothermal field near Kamaʻehuakanaloa summit, collapsed into a large depression...
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Riftia (category Animals living on hydrothermal vents)
was studying hydrothermal vents and no biologists were included in the expedition. Many of the species found living near hydrothermal vents during this...
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continue to support passive hydrothermal circulation systems. Hydrothermal vents are locations on the seafloor where hydrothermal fluids mix into the overlying...
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Chemosynthesis (section Hydrothermal vents)
heterotrophy. Hydrothermal vent fauna The suggestion of Winogradsky was confirmed nearly 90 years later, when hydrothermal ocean vents were predicted...
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Carbon dioxide (section Hydrothermal vents)
dioxide is also introduced into the oceans through hydrothermal vents. The Champagne hydrothermal vent, found at the Northwest Eifuku volcano in the Mariana...
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Deep-sea community (section Hydrothermal vents)
sea communities are marine snow, whale falls, and chemosynthesis at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Prior to the 19th century scientists assumed life...
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Eifuku (section Hydrothermal vents)
Pacific Ocean. The better known one is NW Eifuku, where an unusual hydrothermal vent called "Champagne" produced droplets of liquid CO 2. Both seamounts...
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plankton in the seamount region, thus increasing fauna nearby as well Hydrothermal vents are also a common feature in some areas of the bathypelagic zone and...
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including fresh waters, sediments, soils, activated sludge, hot springs, hydrothermal vents and percolating water. These bacteria are able to exploit the special...
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Kiwa is a genus of marine decapods living at deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. The animals are commonly referred to as "yeti lobsters" or "yeti...
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History of life (section Deep sea hydrothermal vents)
oldest forms of life in the form of fossilized microorganisms in hydrothermal vent precipitates from the Nuvvuagittuq Belt, that may have lived as early...
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the ocean when oceanic conditions change, or material created in hydrothermal vent systems. Cosmogenous sediment comes from extraterrestrial sources...
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Alvinella pompejana (category Animals living on hydrothermal vents)
referred to as "bristle worms"). It is an extremophile found only at hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean, discovered in the early 1980s off the Galápagos...
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Protocell (section Hydrothermal systems)
a primitive metabolic system (Wood-Ljungdahl pathway) at alkaline hydrothermal vents or other geological environments like impact crater lakes from meteorites...
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Hot spring (redirect from Hydrothermal springs)
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the...
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a hydrothermal vent environment for a thermophilic LUCA, this does not constitute evidence that the origin of life took place at a hydrothermal vent since...
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chert rocks from the same Australian craton region, and in 3.42 Ga hydrothermal vent precipitates from Barberton, South Africa. Much later in the geologic...
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Chemosynthetic bacteria support large and diverse communities near hydrothermal vents, filling a similar role in these ecosystems as plants do in the sunlit...
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electron donors are present in high concentration, for instance around hydrothermal vents. Chemoautotrophs are autotrophic organisms that can rely on chemosynthesis...
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