hydrothermal vent
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[edit]Noun
[edit]hydrothermal vent (plural hydrothermal vents)
- a hot spring, on the floor of the ocean, mostly along the central axes of the mid-ocean ridges, where heated fluids emerge from fissures in the Earth's crust.
- 2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 37:
- Everything fed from the heat and chemistry oozing from hydrothermal vents.
Translations
[edit]hot spring on the floor of the ocean
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