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Background Information

The MARVE web activity is tool carefully designed to help visitors explore, observe, and map a hydrothermal vent site on a mid-ocean ridge, specifically the East Pacific Rise. For more information about mid-ocean ridges and hydrothermal vents, I encourage you to visit these other web sites: the Nemo Explorer and Dive and Discover. Also the links below lead to some specific background information

 

Mid Ocean Ridges

Plate Tectonics

Hydrothermal Vents

Black Smokers

Chemosynthesis

Copyright Charley Weiland cweiland@pangea.stanford.edu

last revision {4/22/2002}