Section 6 Ocean Primary Production
spreading ridges on the sea floor—support exotic chemical-based ecosystems. The thriving communities associated with these vents shocked the scientific world when humans first observed a vent on the deep ocean floor in 1977. These vent ecosystems depend on microbes that use chemical energy available in the minerals from the hot spring water.
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