Hydrothermal Vents Imagine being on the ocean floor. You are ...

Hydrothermal Vents Imagine being on the ocean floor. You are in total darkness and in unbearable pressure. You would think that in this freezing environment there is no life, but there is. Eight years ago something was discovered that no one could even imagine. It was a source of life called a hydrothermal vent. A hydrothermal vent is a hot spring found at depths from three to four thousand meters in areas along mid-ocean ridges. …

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