thermal vent
Seafloor hot spring
A thermal vent is an opening in the Earth's surface where geothermally heated water or gases escape, typically found on ocean floors near tectonic plate boundaries.
Deep-sea hydrothermal vents support unique ecosystems that thrive without sunlight, using chemical energy instead: Scientists discovered new species near the thermal vents.
The term also applies to any engineered opening that releases heat from a system.
- hydrothermalHot water underground
- deep-seaOf ocean depths
- chimneyVertical smoke passage
- lost citySettlement swallowed by time
- magmaMolten rock underground
sulfur · ocean floor · tubeworms · extremophile · plume · minerals · heat · superheated water · submarine · volcanic · mid-ocean ridge · tectonic plates · bacteria · chemosynthesis · life on Mars · scalding · abyss · pressure
- habitatsforest, ocean, lake, river, pond
- hot springssteam, hydrogen sulfide, bubbles, mineral deposits, mineral pools
- YellowstoneOld Faithful, geysers, geyser, Yellowstone Lake, hot spring
- Geothermal Featuresgeyser, fumarole, geysers, hot spring, hot springs
- thermal controlheat sink, heatsink, radiator, cooling fan, heat exchanger
- thermal thingshot spring, geyser, heat wave
thermal ventvolcanic crater
Depression from eruption
fumarole · geyser · lava flow · hot spring · volcanic vent
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