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What Are Hydrothermal Vents?
Oceanography

What Are Hydrothermal Vents?

Hydrothermal vents are places on the seafloor where seawater circulates through hot, chemically reactive ocean crust and returns to the ocean carrying dissolved minerals…

September 11, 2026
What Is the Deep Sea?
Oceanography

What Is the Deep Sea?

The deep sea is the vast ocean environment below the sunlit surface layers, commonly including waters deeper than about 200 meters. It is cold, dark, under high pressure…

September 11, 2026
Thunder gods suck water in the sea
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Thunder gods suck water in the sea

Natural water vents called the Thunder God wells seem to attract ocean water into the ground in photos taken from the Oregon coast.

December 18, 2018