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How Is A Hydrothermal Vent Formed?

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How Is A Hydrothermal Vent Formed? Hydrothermal vents are the result of seawater percolating down through fissures in the ocean crust How are hydrothermal vents formed quizlet? Hydrothermal vents are formed along divergent plate tectonic boundaries in the deep ocean. Cold sea water seeps into the cracks and fissures along these boundaries. They are heated

How Do New Vent Communities Form?

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How Do New Vent Communities Form? Vents are most often found along the mid-ocean ridge and rift system that extends through the oceans at sea floor spreading centers. Vents form when volcanic activity adds new material to diverging plates and sea water gets into cracks in the plates. How do hydrothermal vent communities function? Hydrothermal