USATODAY.com - Ocean floor covered in volcanic vents: "Ocean floor covered in volcanic vents
By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists once thought that deep-sea volcanic vents were a rare and surprising occurrence. But not anymore.
The Rainbow vent site, about 1,000 miles west of Portugal. The Rainbow vent site, about 1,000 miles west of Portugal.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Researchers studying the vents that spew superheated metal and chemicals from the inner Earth and support collections of 'extremophile' creatures are finding ocean floors littered with them."
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