European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse A newly discovered Type at eyeless shrimp photographed in f 905 front research submersible Alvon lives near hot geysers on the Atlantic Bottom. Hot water geysers on the Atlantic floor . D1ckerson associated press like treasure Hunters probing the deep or sunken balloons scientists spent years i search of hoi water geysers on the floor of the allanic Ocean 1.000 Miles Oil key disc Jayne Fla then came Iho big find Wilh a Bonus of a Mineral the size of the Houston Asho Domo Ana Lorms of lilo never seen before it was like a detective search says Peter Rona a geophysics Loi Iho National and atmospheric administration who led she Srouch there Vero Only a few of us who Behoved qcysot5 should be present in the Alkinc " the go sors. More than to Miles deep and spouting water Al temperatures of up to 700 degrees fahrenheit. Arc Rich in dissolved meals Thoy Are also Home to never before seen of class shrimp Hac Turin. A Rob species and one creature thai appears Loho a living Fossil " the discoveries of inc Atlantic geysers and similar boiling Venus Lound Carder in Iho Pacific arc among the More important scientific finds of the Century Rona old a reporter under let Geyser have potential applications in mining Energy anal biotechnology industries. Rona says Rona s decade Long quest Only Slid researchers Ironi the Massachusetts Institute of technology arid Woods Hole Oceano graphic Institute let summer the expedition videotaped the geysers Ana scooped up samples of the Hie forms trom a special deep dive Iii Manne a on the mid at Lank a rage. Ihnut 1 000 Miles due Losif of Iii and \2 000 feet Ihu surface my. Ain v in Ihu i f a ,3j5 the no i a Iii Rij 1. it the i Inu ton a pro Rome a re in re Jwj it i. Rili a \ of in1 je1,?. Laid Iti i attic tip Ink. Anaf .i,-1. Cri ii Oconn a of slut 1j ,.jr, a to to r.i., i reasons the Atlantic floor expands at Only Aboul 1 Inch per year the growth rate of fingernails. To counter this expansion the Earth . Via the sea floor is Siraky in s Lull of cracks Rona says along Clicks cold Ocean water Steps deep into the Earth where in is heated and absorbs dissolved metals from volcanic Rock the healed water shool Back out in Mineral packed in is of thu tie years when Hie hoi com hits cold Ocean Alor. Life Olvid Matoes Cool and crystallize so quickly that geysers look like they in spouting a Black smoke plume the minerals fall Hack around Iho Geyser forming Mounds thai Leem with Hie Pacific geysers also chock full of minerals and new Hie forms were found in 1979 Bui Many Esener chars did l think they would occur in Iho Atlantic because the Ocean floor expands so slowly. The bandwagon had gone to the Pacific. Rona says. Bui his out research group confirmed Ihu existence of Atlantic Goy ers and Mineral deposits Al least 10 limes than Tho join the Pacific to Sayr the Atlantic Mound of Iron Copper Gold Silver and geophysicist Peter Rone undersea geysers have potential in mining Energy and biotechnology industries. Page 16 the stars and stripes sunday August 9. 1987
