Deep sea explorers have discovered multiple fields in the Atlantic Ocean where super-heated water billows like smoke from the seafloor over 2,200 miles east of Miami. Called “hydrothermal lost cities, ...

The oceanic crust at North Pond is relatively young (8 million years old) and its circulating fluids are cold (<20 degrees C). By comparison, the temperature of crustal fluids can reach 400 degrees C ...

Several scientific expeditions, including studies from 1948 and 1954, uncovered signs of prehistoric sand, shallow-water limestone, and continental rock 3,000 feet below the Atlantic—aligning with ...

A high-temperature hydrothermal vent field discovered on Puy des Folles Seamount on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at approximately 6,562 feet in depth. Schmidt Ocean Institute Thousands of feet beneath the ...

A team of international scientists on board the RV Falkor (too), a research vessel operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, recently discovered active hydrothermal vents on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.