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Hydrothermal vent fields and chemosynthetic biota on the world's deepest seafloor spreading centre
| العنوان: | Hydrothermal vent fields and chemosynthetic biota on the world's deepest seafloor spreading centre |
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| المؤلفون: | Connelly, Douglas P., Copley, Jonathan T., Murton, Bramley J., Stansfield, Kate, Tyler, Paul A., German, Christopher R., Van Dover, Cindy L., Amon, Diva, Furlong, Maaten, Grindlay, Nancy, Hayman, Nicholas W., Huhnerbach, Veit, Judge, Maria, Le Bas, Tim, McPhail, Stephen, Meier, Alexandra, Nakamura, Ko-ichi, Nye, Verity, Pebody, Miles, Pedersen, Rolf B., Plouviez, Sophie, Sands, Carla M., Searle, Roger C., Stevenson, Peter, Taws, Sarah, Wilcox, Sally |
| المصدر: | Nature Communications 3 (2012): 620 ; doi:10.1038/ncomms1636 |
| بيانات النشر: | Nature Publishing Group |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| المجموعة: | Woods Hole Scientific Community: WHOAS (Woods Hole Open Access Server) |
| الوصف: | © Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2012. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Nature Communications 3 (2012): 620, doi:10.1038/ncomms1636. ; The Mid-Cayman spreading centre is an ultraslow-spreading ridge in the Caribbean Sea. Its extreme depth and geographic isolation from other mid-ocean ridges offer insights into the effects of pressure on hydrothermal venting, and the biogeography of vent fauna. Here we report the discovery of two hydrothermal vent fields on the Mid-Cayman spreading centre. The Von Damm Vent Field is located on the upper slopes of an oceanic core complex at a depth of 2,300 m. High-temperature venting in this off-axis setting suggests that the global incidence of vent fields may be underestimated. At a depth of 4,960 m on the Mid-Cayman spreading centre axis, the Beebe Vent Field emits copper-enriched fluids and a buoyant plume that rises 1,100 m, consistent with > 400 °C venting from the world’s deepest known hydrothermal system. At both sites, a new morphospecies of alvinocaridid shrimp dominates faunal assemblages, which exhibit similarities to those of Mid-Atlantic vents. ; This work is supported by a UK NERC award (NE/F017774/1 & NE/F017758/1) to J.T.C., D.P.C., B.J.M., K.S. and P.A.T., Royal Society Travel Grant 2009/R3 to R.C.S., A.M. is supported by SENSEnet, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) funded by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme, Contract Number PITN-GA-2009-237868 and a NASA ASTEP Grant NNX09AB75G to C.R.G. and C.L.V.D., which are gratefully acknowledged. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| العلاقة: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1636Test; Nature Communications 3 (2012): 620; https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5070Test |
| الإتاحة: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1636Test https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5070Test |
| حقوق: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0Test/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.1DDF051 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
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