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Vents and Seeps
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Clam shell bed around a thermal mound in 2800 meters.
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Black smoker chimney on Endeavour Ridge spouts super-heated water and chemicals.
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Edge of a brine pool, a super salty pond, populated by mussels at 800 meters.Bathymodiolus
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Tube worms living at a Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon seep are 2 meters long.Lamellibranchia
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Tube worms at a Pacific hydrothermal vent are related to hydrocarbon seep worms.Riftia pachyptila
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Black smoker at a mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal vent.
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Hydrothermal vent tubeworms get energy from bacteria that live in their plumes.
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Sub samples show temperatures in hydrothermal vents exceed 300 degrees celsius.
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Mussels, worms and a spider crab at a hydrocarbon seep community.
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Minerals venting from the seafloor, provide chemosynthetic sustenance for bacteria, some of Earth's earliest life,
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Spider crabs around vent sites on the Juan de Fuca Ridge.
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Tube worms feeding at base of a black smoker chimney hydrothermal vent.
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Black smoker chimney and shrimp on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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