Talk:Hydrothermal vent

DEMARCUS HUDSON WANTS 2W STICK YHU IN THE ASS....!

A geyser on land is a hydrothermal vent (and here I'd include mud pools, hot lakes, etc etc). A black smoker is too; anywhere hydrothermal waters escape the rocks is a hydrothermal vent. So...there are reasons for not merging. Not all subsea hydrothermal fields result in black smokers or white smokers; some are too cool to result in sulphide precipitation but are still hot (say, 40-200 degrees). There's a spectrum, basically. If anything, black smokers could be merged in here without too much trouble.

For examples of hydrothermal vents which are not black smokers; the hot springs of Yellowstone, California, New Zealand, Greenland, Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, etc. Some of the see mounds in the Gibon Desert, South Australia, are hot groundwaters derived from the basement formations of the great artesian basin. So, ok, answers.com says that all hydrothermal vents are oceanographic, but it doesn't mean that its what geologists would recognise as a vent of hot groundwaters.

There's no problem mentioning relict vents found in ophiolites or other marine volcanic sequences, so feel free to throw that in the article. Rolinator 23:02, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Biological Communities Section

Someone has edited much of this section into an unreadable state. They have punctuated the text I added quite some time ago without blending it in appropriately (the part on tubeworms is a good example - the part about symbiotic bacteria makes absolutely no sense). I don't have the paper I wrote on hand, so I have no quick way of editing without being sure of factual info...IMKatgrrl (talk) 01:23, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see very little change to the section. Comparing the current section with the one you wrote on 13 April 2008 shows essentially no change. Compare for yourself diff. Vsmith (talk) 01:50, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]