Minerals sediments

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UCSB, Univ. S. Carolina, NOAA, WHOI.

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NOAA photo library

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Hydrothermal vent fluids contain much dissolved chemical material that flows out of the vent, rapidly cools and reacts with the surrounding seawater, and then precipitates out minerals that form sediments on the surrounding seafloor.

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