As a rule, “smokers” are located along the axes of the middle oceanic ridges. Scientists stumbled upon the “deposit” of new ones in an unexpected place. An extensive field dotted with geothermal springs was found by American researchers led by Jill McDermott from Lehigh University.
The field was formed on an area of more than 5 thousand square meters in the northern part of the East Pacific Rise – near the Peruvian coast of South America.
The field has more than 20 “black smokers” about 10 meters high. “Hot” water erupts from them – it comes from some reservoirs located under the ocean floor at a depth of about 2 kilometers.
It is possible that in these hot reservoirs,
heated by magma, water is rising from the internal ocean, which is
located very deep underground hundreds of kilometers from the surface....<<<Read More>>>....
