What are the potential for using ocean vents as natural laboratories to study geological, chemical, and biological processes in extreme conditions?

Jun 27, 2006 ... Finally, as each discovered vent site has been chemically unique from previously discovered sites, Indian Ocean sites would almost undoubtedly ... Scientists isolated species of Pyrolobus (“fire lobe”) and Pyrodictium (“fire network”) Archaea also from chimney walls. These heat-loving microbes (which grow ... Within the endemic invertebrate faunas of hydrothermal vents, five biogeographic provinces are recognized. Invertebrates at two Indian Ocean vent fields ... Access Scientific Research ... Thriving chemosynthetic communities were located for the first time in the Indian Ocean between 2420 and 2450 m, on a volcanic ... Article. Compositional controls on vent fluids from ultramafic-hosted hydrothermal systems at mid-ocean ridges: An experimental study at 400°C, 500 bars. Around hydrothermal vents, life is abundant because food is abundant. Hot, mineral-rich fluids supply nutrient chemicals. A hydrothermal vent is a hot spring produced by underwater volcanoes or tectonic activity. But what's really cool about them is the abundance and assortment of ... Life at hydrothermal vents. Initially the temperature of the fluid released from hydrothermal vents is extreme - it can reach over 400°C. But despite the ... ... OCEANS DEEPLY ARCHIVES. Tag. Hydrothermal Vents. Biodiversity; Community. Looking for Eden at the Bottom of the Ocean. In a deep, dark and unexplored corner of ... Since the first discovery of deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Galápagos Rift in 1977, numerous vent sites and endemic faunal assemblages have been ...