Living at the extremes: extremophiles and the limits of life in a planetary context

N Merino, HS Aronson, DP Bojanova… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Prokaryotic life has dominated most of the evolutionary history of our planet, evolving to
occupy virtually all available environmental niches. Extremophiles, especially those thriving …

The microbiomes of deep-sea hydrothermal vents: distributed globally, shaped locally

GJ Dick - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery of chemosynthetic ecosystems at deep-sea hydrothermal vents in 1977
changed our view of biology. Chemosynthetic bacteria and archaea form the foundation of …

Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction

MR Milad, GJ Quirk - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Conditioned fear responses to a tone previously paired with a shock diminish if the tone is
repeatedly presented without the shock, a process known as extinction. Since Pavlov it has …

[图书][B] Seabed fluid flow: the impact on geology, biology and the marine environment

A Judd, M Hovland - 2009 - books.google.com
Seabed fluid flow involves the flow of gases and liquids through the seabed. Such fluids
have been found to leak through the seabed into the marine environment in seas and …

[图书][B] Applied geothermics

L Eppelbaum, I Kutasov, A Pilchin - 2014 - Springer
Geothermics is an area of geophysics that studies the thermal state and history of the interior
of the Earth. Solar heat penetrates only into the topmost layers of the Earth's crust. Diurnal …

Hydrocarbon seep and hydrothermal vent paleoenvironments and paleontology: Past developments and future research directions

KA Campbell - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2006 - Elsevier
Hydrocarbon seeps and hydrothermal vents are now known to be common at continental
margins and oceanic spreading centers worldwide, exuding fluids rich in CH4 and H2S, and …

Evolution and biogeography of deep-sea vent and seep invertebrates

CL Van Dover, CR German, KG Speer, LM Parson… - science, 2002 - science.org
Deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps are submarine springs where nutrient-rich
fluids emanate from the sea floor. Vent and seep ecosystems occur in a variety of geological …

First active hydrothermal vents on an ultraslow-spreading center: Southwest Indian Ridge

C Tao, J Lin, S Guo, YJ Chen, G Wu, X Han… - …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The ultraslow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge is a major tectonic province,
representing one of the important end-member mid-ocean-ridge types for its very slow and …

Volcanoes, fluids, and life at mid-ocean ridge spreading centers

DS Kelley, JA Baross, JR Delaney - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2002 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The recent recognition of a potentially vast, unexplored hot microbial biosphere
associated with active volcanism along the global mid-ocean ridge network has …

Influence of volcanic and hydrothermal activity on organic matter enrichment in the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation, southern Ordos Basin, Central China

K Zhang, R Liu, Z Liu, B Li, J Han, K Zhao - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Based on the field investigation of oil shales in the southern Ordos Basin, detailed
observations, and systematic sample analyses of core samples from a well that penetrated …