An Undersea Mountain: Tectonic Plates and Hydrothermal Vents

Join Scripps Institution's Donna Blackman as she shares a fascinating look at tectonic plate spreading and the discovery of a "lost-city" of hydrothermal vents and the unique creatures that dwell there. Series: "Perspectives on Ocean Science" [8/2001] [Science] [Show ID: 5726]

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Education

Tags:

• tectonics
• oceanography
• hydrothermal
• vents

[amielemign]

Searching for this for some time now - i guess luck is more advanced than search engines :D

[2011rhythmdivine]

The music was quite scary.

The ocean, being mysterious and not readily easily studied because of the water and the processes there, will remain somewhat scary to us.

[TheCaptainLulz]

@mysciencenow Bacteria than. Cool. Im an addicted rockhound so I try and identify minerals when I see a comment on them. Have fun.

[mysciencenow]

@TheCaptainLulz it is at that pressure already this.....it is apparently been in the same form for millions of years ...it does dry out though if i dont put it into bags....and once dry it sometimes is brittle sometimes rather hard....

[TheCaptainLulz]

@mysciencenow the blue goo, does it solidify at surface pressure?

[mysciencenow]

@TheCaptainLulz i havent been able to get anyone to analyze it but it comes in many colors and a blue-goo also...and it is in the quartz as inclusions also

[TheCaptainLulz]

@mysciencenow Pure Cl gas or HCl?

[mysciencenow]

@mysciencenow yeah i also mine a chlorine vent

[TheCaptainLulz]

@mysciencenow youre a miner, thats an awesome job. Dirty, but awesome. 

[mysciencenow]

the iron fields i mine are like that