Structure and evolution of hydrothermal vent complexes in the Karoo Basin,...

Journal of the Geological Society;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Basin, extrusive lava sequences and hydrothermal vent complexes. These last are pipe-like...mapping of two sediment-dominated hydrothermal vent complexes shows that they are composed...complexes. Our data document that the hydrothermal vent complexes were formed by one or a...

Discussion on structure and evolution of hydrothermal vent complexes in...

Journal of the Geological Society;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......for their interest in our paper on hydrothermal vent complexes in the Karoo Basin (Svensen...our study area (the Mackay's Kop hydrothermal vent complex), they raise some questions...deformation zones along the borders of the hydrothermal vent complexes. If we understand Lock...

Scientists seeking secrets of lost city

Sea Technology;  August 1, 2001 ;     561 words ...The hydrothermal vent structures discovered last December...co-authors. Lost City is like other hydrothermal vent systems where seawater circulates...City Field was unlike other hydrothermal vent systems in a number of ways...

Retinal anatomy of a new species of bresiliid shrimp from a hydrothermal...

The Biological Bulletin;  February 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......a review). In 1986, the first two hydrothermal vent sites on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...shows the location of these four hydrothermal vent fields. More sites are likely to...of an unusual and large eye on a hydrothermal vent species which lives 3500 to 3700...

European team getting deep into hot water

Sea Technology;  February 1, 1997 ;     251 words ......research project to explore the largest, most powerful hydrothermal vent site ever found in the Atlantic Ocean. The Rainbow vent...fracture and separate, allowing new seafloor to be created. At hydrothermal vent sites, sea water percolates down through these fractures...

Quake jars assumptions about crustal plumbing

Sea Technology;  October 1, 2000 ;     470 words ......the coast of Washington that caused hydrothermal vent systems miles away to pump out substantially...Scientists were therefore astonished that hydrothermal vent systems nearly five miles from the...and were located within distinct hydrothermal vent fields believed to have ...

Sun-free photosynthesis?

The Scientist;  July 18, 2005 ;     243 words ......photosynthetic green sulfur bacteria (GSB1) at a hydrothermal vent more than a mile below the ocean surface.1 Beatty...photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent," Proc Natl Acad Sci, 102:9306-10, June 28, 2005...

Microbiology: Life at 700 Degrees?

The Washington Post;  May 7, 1990 ;     286 words ......than a self-cleaning oven. Yet scientists poking inside a hydrothermal vent 7,200 feet below the surface of the ocean off the coast...researchers collected water samples at the mouth of a gushing hydrothermal vent, which is a bit like drinking from a fire hydrant. The...

Colonizing the Abyss.

M2 Presswire;  November 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ......by scientists. Many of the known hydrothermal vent sites are dominated by mussels belonging...2,000 metres, and within reach of hydrothermal vent sites. Fertilization of eggs under...temperature tolerance as mussels living in hydrothermal vent habitats. For this reason, the ...

Going deep: a next-generation Alvin submersible will take ocean...

Popular Mechanics;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......seen before. Kochevar's target was a hydrothermal vent, or underwater geyser. The first...from Old Faithful, the water from a hydrothermal vent is chockfull of minerals leached...could thrive in the dark extreme of a hydrothermal vent on Earth, exobiologists speculate...

OUR ROOTS MAY SINK TO FLOOR OF THE OCEAN UNDERSEA VOLCANOES DISCOVERED BY...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  July 12, 2001 ;     610 words ......support microbial organisms. The first hydrothermal vent was stumbled upon in 1977, when scientists...coming out of it. It was clearly a hydrothermal vent, but it turns out to have a very...an entirely new kind of undersea hydrothermal vent, populated only by bacteria, including...

Scientists returning to field of thermal spires

Sea Technology;  May 1, 2003 ;     327 words ...The bizarre hydrothermal vent field discovered a little more than two years ago surprised...million-year-old mantle rocks, not by young volcanism. The Lost City hydrothermal vent field was discovered in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean about...

Major Cruise to Galapagos Rift Marks 25th Anniversary of Deep Sea...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  May 9, 2002 ;     700+ words ......photosynthetic plants, the base of the hydrothermal vent food chain starts with chemosynthetic...animals have been found at deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites around the globe. The discovery of hydrothermal vent life completely rearranged our...

Into the abyss: an ocean scientist plunges to the seafloor in search of...

Science World;  November 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......inch) porthole, Humphris spied a hydrothermal vent. These springs on the seafloor spew...team of geologists found the first hydrothermal vent near the Galapagos Islands in the...research team that discovered the first hydrothermal vent in the Atlantic Ocean. It was found...

Scientists discover secrets of 'Lost City'; New class of hydrothermal...

M2 Presswire;  July 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ......COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11072001 Hydrothermal vent structures serendipitously discovered...authors. Lost City is like other hydrothermal vent systems where seawater circulates...the Lost City Field is unlike other hydrothermal vent systems in a number of ways. First...