Lost City pumps life-essential chemicals at rates unseen at typical black smokers

Hydrocarbons – molecules critical to life – are being generated by the simple interaction of seawater with the rocks under the Lost City hydrothermal vent field in the mid-Atlantic Ocean.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news121010019.html">Lost City pumps life-essential chemicals at rates unseen at typical black smokers</a></p> <p>Hydrocarbons – molecules critical to life – are being generated by the simple interaction of seawater with the rocks under the Lost City hydrothermal vent field in the mid-Atlantic Ocean.</p>