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Galapagos 2005 Expedition. Hydrothermal vent fluids contain much dissolvedchemical material that flows out of the vent, rapidly cools and reacts with thesurrounding seawater, and then precipitates out minerals that form sediments on the surrounding seafloor.
Credit
UCSB, Univ. S. Carolina, NOAA, WHOI.
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
Keywords
Ocean Exploration