Exploring the ecology of deep-sea hydrothermal vents in a metacommunity framework

LS Mullineaux, A Metaxas, SE Beaulieu… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Species inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents are strongly influenced by the geological
setting, as it provides the chemical-rich fluids supporting the food web, creates the …

Exploring the ocean for hydrothermal venting: New techniques, new discoveries, new insights

ET Baker - Ore Geology Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Enumerating active hydrothermal fields on the seafloor has been a challenge since their
discovery almost 40 years ago. High-temperature hydrothermal fields are readily …

Inactive hydrothermal vent microbial communities are important contributors to deep ocean primary productivity

AM Achberger, R Jones, J Jamieson, CP Holmes… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Active hydrothermal vents are oases for productivity in the deep ocean, but the flow of
dissolved substrates that fuel such abundant life ultimately ceases, leaving behind inactive …

Establishing a new era of submarine volcanic observatories: Cabling Axial Seamount and the Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge

DS Kelley, JR Delaney, SK Juniper - Marine Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
At least 70% of the volcanism on Earth occurs along the 65,000 km network of mid-ocean
ridge (MOR) spreading centers. Within these dynamic environments, the highest fluxes of …

Hybrid shallow on-axis and deep off-axis hydrothermal circulation at fast-spreading ridges

J Hasenclever, S Theissen-Krah, LH Rüpke… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Hydrothermal flow at oceanic spreading centres accounts for about ten per cent of all heat
flux in the oceans, and controls the thermal structure of young oceanic plates. It also …

Animal life in the shallow subseafloor crust at deep-sea hydrothermal vents

M Bright, S Gollner, AL de Oliveira… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
It was once believed that only microbes and viruses inhabited the subseafloor crust beneath
hydrothermal vents. Yet, on the seafloor, animals like the giant tubeworm Riftia pachyptila …

Hydrothermal impacts on trace element and isotope ocean biogeochemistry

CR German, KA Casciotti, JC Dutay… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hydrothermal activity occurs in all ocean basins, releasing high concentrations of key trace
elements and isotopes (TEIs) into the oceans. Importantly, the calculated rate of entrainment …

Barium isotopes in mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal vent fluids: A source of isotopically heavy Ba to the ocean

YT Hsieh, L Bridgestock, PP Scheuermann… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Mid-ocean ridge (MOR) hydrothermal vent fluids are enriched with dissolved barium, but
due to barite (BaSO 4) precipitation during mixing between Ba-bearing vent fluids and SO 4 …

Discovery of active off-axis hydrothermal vents at 9 54′ N East Pacific Rise

JM McDermott, R Parnell-Turner… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Comprehensive knowledge of the distribution of active hydrothermal vent fields along
midocean ridges is essential to understanding global chemical and heat fluxes and endemic …

Volcanic eruptions in the deep sea

KH Rubin, SA Soule, WW Chadwick Jr, DJ Fornari… - Oceanography, 2012 - JSTOR
Volcanic eruptions are important events in Earth's cycle of magma generation and crustal
construction. Over durations of hours to years, eruptions produce new deposits of lava …