hydrothermal vent

noun

a hot spring, on the floor of the ocean, mostly along the central axes of the mid-ocean ridges, where heated fluids emerge from fissures in the Earth's crust.

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Meanings

nounhydrothermal vent (plural hydrothermal vents)

plural hydrothermal vents

  1. a hot spring, on the floor of the ocean, mostly along the central axes of the mid-ocean ridges, where heated fluids emerge from fissures in the Earth's crust.

    Everything fed from the heat and chemistry oozing from hydrothermal vents.

    2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 37

Translations

Finnish vedenalainen kuumavesilähde
  • vedenalainen kuumavesilähdehot spring on the floor of the ocean
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