hydrothermal vent

English

Noun

hydrothermal vent (plural hydrothermal vents)

1. a hot spring, on the floor of the ocean, mostly along the central axes of the mid-ocean ridges, where heated fluids emerge from fissures in the Earth's crust.
   • 2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 37:

     Everything fed from the heat and chemistry oozing from hydrothermal vents.

Translations

hot spring on the floor of the ocean

• Finnish: vedenalainen kuumavesilähde

See also

• black smoker
• fumarole
• geyser
• white smoker