Black Smokers and Hot Springs | Tomorrow Today

Geologist Wolfgang Bach's research area is one of the most remarkable structures in the deep sea.

The MARUM scientist, who is also a professor at Bremen University studies the hydrothermal vents called "black smokers." Some of these chimney-like hot water springs on the sea bed are formed in the mid-Atlantic, in an area known as the Logatchev Field where tectonic plates are moving apart and a new ocean floor is emerging from below. How the black smokers come into being, and what enables molluscs, shrimp and crabs to exist in their chemically aggressive environment are just two of the questions that Wolfgang Bach wants to answer. In this film, he shows Tomorrow Today stunning images from -- as he puts it -- "the oases in the desert of the ocean floor."

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Black Smokers
• Hot Springs
• deep sea
• hydrothermal vents
• sea bed
• Logatchev Field
• ocean floor

[GreenJanuary]

amazing



[JonThm]

Hot smokers do fusion