30,000 years of hydrothermal activity at the lost city vent field
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Strontium, carbon, and oxygen isotope data and radiocarbon ages document at least 30,000 years of hydrothermal activity driven by serpentinization reactions at Lost City. Serpentinization beneath this off-axis field is estimated to occur at a minimum rate of 1.2 × 10 – 4 cubic kilometers per year. The access of seawater to relatively cool, fresh peridotite, coupled with faulting, volumetric expansion, and mass wasting processes, are crucial to sustain such systems. The amount of heat produced by serpentinization of peridotite massifs, typical of slow and ultraslow spreading environments, has the potential to drive Lost City–type systems for hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of years.
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When the effluent of submarine hydrothermal vents interfaces with seawater at the ocean floor, two fluids with different physicochemical properties continuously mix, generating far from equilibrium conditions over the lifespan of the vent, which in the case of Lost City can be over 30,000 years.
“When the effluent of submarine hydrothermal vents interfaces with seawater at the ocean floor, two fluids with different physicochemical properties continuously mix, generating far from equilibrium conditions over the lifespan of the vent, which in the case of Lost City can be over 30,000 years (Früh-Green et al., 2003).”
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In peridotite formations, natural alkaline springs have persisted in the same locations for tens to hundreds of thousands of years without running out of reactive surface areas or destroying permeability.
“in peridotite formations, natural alkaline springs have persisted in the same locations for tens to hundreds of thousands of years without running out of reactive surface areas or destroying permeability”
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- Authors
- Früh-Green, G. L., Kelley, D. S., Bernasconi, S. M., Karson, J. A., Ludwig, K. A., Butterfield, D. A., Boschi, C., & Proskurowski, G.
- Affiliations
- Department of Earth Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich (ETH-Z), CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland. School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708–0230, USA. University of Washington and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration–Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2003-07-25
- Volume
- 301
- Issue
- 5632
- Pages
- 495-498
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2057655240
- Cited by
- 431
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 22.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geology › Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Keywords
- Lost City hydrothermal field, serpentinization, strontium isotopes, carbon isotopes, oxygen isotopes, radiocarbon ages, peridotite, faulting, mass movements, thermogenesis, seafloor hydrothermal vents
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