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Nature 395, 437-439 (1 October 1998) | doi:10.1038/26617

Oceanography:  Vents at higher frequency

Cindy Lee Van Dover1

The deep-ocean research community is a small one, but the rate at which central dogmas are toppled must be one of the highest in science. Because of the relative inaccessibility of the abyssal environment, general ideas about deep-ocean processes are often advanced on the basis of only a few local or regional observations.