image: Black smoke rises vigorously at vents when the hot, chemically-altered seawater mixes with the cold, oxygenated bottom water. The hydrothermal alterations to seawater occurring at these relatively isolated locations affect the global ocean chemical budget. This image relates to an article that appeared in the April 29, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Diane Adams of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass., and colleagues, was titled, "Surface-Generated Mesoscale Eddies Transport Deep-Sea Products from Hydrothermal Vents." view more
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