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Lost City pumps life-essential chemicals at rates unseen at typical black smokers

01-31-2008 · EurekAlert!

Hydrocarbons -- molecules critical to life -- are being generated by the simple interaction of seawater with the rocks under the Lost City hydrothermal vent field in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. Being able to produce building blocks of life makes Lost City-like vents even stronger contenders as places where life might have originated on Earth.

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