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Published online 31 January 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.542

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Deep-ocean vents are a source of oil and gas

Hydrocarbons bubble up from the mid-Atlantic's Lost City.

Rachel Courtland

Undersea thermal vents can yield unexpected bounty: natural gas and the building blocks of oil products. In a new analysis of Lost City, a hydrothermal field in the mid-Atlantic, researchers have found that these organic molecules are being created through inorganic processes, rather than the more typical decomposition of once-living material.

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