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Black Smokers part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/hellscrust/html/sid...
This brief web article features black smokers and discusses the history of their discovery, the geologic processes creating black smokers, and the various life forms inhabiting this extreme ...

Black Smoker, Hydrothermal Vent part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/kiosk/bsmoker.html
This website features an overview of the research of Dr. Craig Cary at the University of Delaware Graduate College of Marine Studies. Dr. Cary's research focuses on black smokers and the ...

Black Smokers! part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/526.html
This webpage contains a brief introduction to the discovery of hydrothermal systems and black smokers. Within the webpage are links to information on gigantic tube worms, polychaete worms, oceans, ...

Australians Sweep up Black Smoker Chimney part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=blacksmoker
This brief web article features an Australian research team who dredged up a black smoker from the deep waters of the Bismark Sea. The article recounts the team's expedition and discusses the ...

Dive and Discover: Expeditions to the Seafloor part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/index.html
Dive and Discover is an interactive distance learning web site designed to immerse you in the excitement of discovery and exploration of the deep seafloor. Dive and Discover brings you right on board ...

Dive and Discover: Juan de Fuca Ridge part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/expedition8/index.html
Dive and Discover is an interactive distance learning web site designed to immerse you in the excitement of discovery and exploration of the deep seafloor. On this particular website, Dive and ...

Dive and Discover's Deeper Discovery: Hydrothermal Vents part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/vents/index.html
Dive and Discover is an interactive distance learning web site designed to immerse you in the excitement of discovery and exploration of the deep seafloor. On this particular website, Dive and ...

The Worm that Boasts Earth's Hottest Lifestyle part of SERC Web Resource Collection

https://annex.exploratorium.edu/aaas-2001/dispatches/the...
This brief Exploratorium dispatch reports that the Pompeii worm, an inhabitant of hydrothermal vent ecosystems, can withstand hotter temperatures than any other creature on earth can -- except for ...

Black Smokers: Life Forms part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.amnh.org/learn/pd/earth/gallery_week6/rfl_ind...
This educational web site features life forms of deep sea hydrothermal systems. Hosted by the American Museum of Natural History, this site offers a brief introduction of the community and then ...

We're in Hot Water Now: Hydrothermal Vents part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/07/...
In this National Geographic lesson, students will use National Geographic's Yellowstone internet module to learn about the processes that drive geysers. The activity involves learning about ...