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Hydrothermal Vents
Title: Hydrothermal Vents
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 625 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
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. Plate movements …showed first 75 words of 625 total…
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http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/geology/methods.html
http://wwwyrbe.edu.on.ca/~mdhs/compscl/dpt3ar/oceanog/ahydrovt.html
http://www.geneso.edu/~jc99/whatarethey.html
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/salt/oceans/zone.html
BOOKS
Under The Sea, The Nature Company Discoveries Library, PP.32-33
Mysteries of the Sea, By Perrine, Doug, Publications International, LTD PP. 239,302,
OTHER
World Book Science Year 200, PP.237
World Ocean Floors-Pacific Ocean, Shupe, John Washington, D.C., June 1992
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