Open Access“Edifice Rex” Sulfide Recovery Project: Analysis of submarine hydrothermal, microbial habitat
Author(s) -
Delaney John R.,
Kelley Deborah S.,
Mathez Edmond A.,
Yoerger Dana R.,
Baross John,
Schrenk Matt O.,
Tivey Margaret K.,
Kaye Jonathan,
Robigou Veronique
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/01eo00041
Subject(s) - submarine , submarine volcano , context (archaeology) , hydrothermal vent , volcano , earth science , seabed , biosphere , geology , hydrothermal circulation , oceanography , geochemistry , ecology , paleontology , biology
Recent scientific developments place inquiries about submarine volcanic systems in a broad planetary context. Among these is the discovery that submarine eruptions are intimately linked with massive effusions of microbes and their products from below the sea floor [ Holden et al. , 1998]. This material includes microbes that only grow at temperatures tens of degrees higher than the temperatures of the vent fluids from which they were sampled. Such results lend support for the existence of a potentially extensive, but currently unexplored sub‐sea floor microbial biosphere associated with active submarine volcanoes [ Deming and Baross , 1993; Delaney et al. , 1998; Summit and Baross , 1998].