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Nature 412, 127-128 (12 July 2001) | doi:10.1038/35084297
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Chemical and heat exchange at vents on deep ocean floors has a large influence on marine chemistry. The discovery of a spectacular new type of venting system has given the story another twist.
One of the revelations of twentieth-century science was that the deep oceans contain vast mountain chains, rising from the sea floor. Here, as a consequence of plate tectonics, hot material rises from within the Earth's mantle, generating new ocean crust and forming mid-ocean ridges.
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