hydrothermal vents

A form of hydrothermal vent — 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

noun
  1. pluralplural of hydrothermal vent
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