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Schmidt Ocean Institute

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This high-temperature hydrothermal vent field was discovered during the expedition in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Within hydrothermal vents, seawater chemically altered through water-rock interactions at high temperatures is expelled through geological formations called chimneys.

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