File:Lost City (hydrothermal field)01.jpg

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English: Collecting samples from a 6-foot-wide flange, or ledge, growing from the side of the 18-story carbonate chimney in the Lost City Field reveals an opening into the hollow white interior of the flange from which warm vent fluids escape in a shimmering curtain.
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Source http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/01/pr0156.htm
Author National Science Foundation (University of Washington/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
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Public domain This image is a work of a National Science Foundation employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

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December 2000

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current11:32, 25 June 2009Thumbnail for version as of 11:32, 25 June 2009600 × 394 (64 KB)Rotational~commonswiki{{Information |Description={{en|1=A 5-foot-wide flange, or ledge, on the side of a chimney in the Lost City Field is topped with dendritic carbonate growths that form when mineral-rich vent fluids seep through the flange and come into contact with the col
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