GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A hydrothermal vent is a fissure on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges. They are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart at mid-ocean ridges, ocean basins, and hotspots.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hydrothermal vents are the result of seawater percolating down through fissures in the ocean crust in the vicinity of spreading centers or subduction zones (places on Earth where two tectonic plates move away or towards one another). The cold seawater is heated by hot magma and reemerges to form the vents.

Detailed explanation-3: -These are often the location of subduction zones. The “Ring of Fire” is located along the continental margins of the Pacific Ocean, where the Pacific plate is colliding with the continental plates. Submarine volcanism at divergent and convergent plate boundaries produces hydrothermal venting.

Detailed explanation-4: -Where are hydrothermal vents found? Hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean usually form along the Mid-ocean ridges, such as the East Pacific Rise and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. These are locations where two tectonic plates (moving sections of the Earth’s crust) are branching out and new crust is being formed.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hydrothermal vents are naturally forming structures found in the ocean. They usually occur on divergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates are moving apart. The vents expel a fluid that was heated to extreme temperatures when seeping through the Earth’s crust from the ocean.