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... vent, 2 low temperature vents, a 'near-HT vent' habitat and a non-vent site situated at upper bathyal depths on the southern Mohn's Ridge in the Arctic Ocean. Aug 3, 2014 ... Abstract ... The associated fauna also changes as communities progress through the successional stages, and eventually non-vent—endemic deep-sea ... Apr 21, 2023 ... The discovery of the active hydrothermal vents is the first on this section of the world's longest underwater mountain range, the Mid-Atlantic ... Feb 8, 2024 ... Sediments surrounding hydrothermal vents are important transition spaces between hydrothermal and pelagic environments. Hydrothermal vents are a feature of the deep seafloor discovered less than 25 years ago. Fields of them are created when seawater percolates into ... Our scientific assessment shows that all active vent fields in the Indian Ocean appear to meet all scientific criteria for protection. Faunal assemblages at hydrothermal vents associated with island-arc volcanism are less well known than those at vents on mid-ocean ridges and back-arc ... Mar 21, 2024 ... In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began. Jun 5, 2019 ... Here we present the first observational evidence of upwelled hydrothermally influenced deep waters stimulating massive phytoplankton blooms in the Southern ... Article. Compositional controls on vent fluids from ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal systems at mid-ocean ridges: An experimental study at 400°C, 500 bars.