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The Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
The Ecology of DeepSea Hydrothermal Vents
Author: Cindy Van Dover
Teeming with weird and wonderful life--giant clams and mussels, tubeworms, "eyeless" shrimp, and bacteria that survive on sulfur--deep-sea hot-water springs are found along rifts where sea-floor spreading occurs. The theory of plate tectonics predicted the existence of these hydrothermal vents, but they were discovered only in 1977. Since then t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691057804
ISBN-10: 069105780X
Publication Date: 3/6/2000
Pages: 424
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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