Resources
About Vents from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Hydrothermal Vents
WHOI Ocean Topic
Life at Vents & Seeps
WHOI Ocean Topic
Mid-ocean Ridges
WHOI Ocean Topic
Hydrothermal Vents
from Oceanus magazine
Mid-ocean Ridges
from Oceanus magazine
Hydrothermal Vent Infomode
from Dive and Discover
About the Discovery
David Perlman Articles
Amazing Voyage Probing
Underwater Mysteries
March 7, 1977
San Francisco Chronicle
Astounding Undersea Discoveries
March 9, 1977
San Francisco Chronicle
Exploring the Ocean’s Young Volcanoes
March 12, 1977
San Francisco Chronicle
Sea Research—Ceaseless
But Exciting
March 18, 1977
San Francisco Chronicle
Deep Questions From the Sea
March 25, 1977
San Francisco Chronicle
Other articles
Report
of the Decade: The International Decade of Ocean Exploration
National Science Foundation
Clustering
of Suspension-Feeding Macrobenthos Near Abyssal Hydrothermal Vents
at the Oceanic Spreading Centers
By Peter Lonsdale
Deep-Sea Research, 1977, Vol. 24, No. 9
Hydrothermal Plumes
in the Galápagos Rift
By R.F. Weiss, P. Lonsdale, J.E. Lupton, A.E. Bainbridge, H. Craig
Nature, Vol. 267, No. 5612, June 16, 1977
Submarine Thermal Springs
on the Galápagos Rift
By Jack B. Corliss, Jack Dymond, Louis I Gordon, John M. Edmond,
David Williams, Arnold Bainbridge, Kathy Crane, Tjeerd H. van Andel
Science, Vol. 203, No. 4385, March 16, 1979
The
Galápagos Rift at 86°W: Volcanism, Structure, and Evolution
of the Rift Valley
By Tjeerd H. van Andel and Robert D. Ballard
Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 84, No. 810, September 10, 1979
The Giant Tubeworms
By Meredith L. Jones
Oceanus, Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 1984
Notes on a
Major Oceanographic Find
By Robert D. Ballard
Oceanus Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 1977
The Distribution
and Community Structure of Megafauna at the Galapágos Rift
Hydrothermal VentsBy Robert R. Hessler and William M. Smithey, Jr.
Hydrothermal Processes at Seafloor Spreading Centers, edited
by Peter A. Reno, Kurt Bostrum, Lucien Laubier, and Kenneth L. Smith,
Jr. (Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1984)
Galápagos
‘79: Initial Findings of a Deep-Sea Biological Quest
By J.F Grassle, C.J. Berg, J.J. Childress, J.P. Grassle, R.R. Hessler,
H.J. Jannasch, D.M. Karl, R.A. Lutz, T.J. Mickel, D.C. Rhoads, H.L.
Sanders, K.L. Smith, G.N. Somero, R.D. Turner, J.H. Tuttle, P.J.
Walsh, and A.J. Williams
Oceanus, No. 22, 1979
The
Geochemistry of Ridge Crest Hot Springs
By John M. Edmond
Oceanus, Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 1984
Biologists’
First Look at Vent Communities—Galápagos Rift, 1979
By J. Frederick Grassle
Oceanus, Vol. 41, No. 2, 1998
Chemosynthetic
Production of Biomass: An idea from a recent oceanographic discovery
By Holger W. Jannasch
Oceanus, Vol. 41, No. 2, 1998
