[AmericaUnited]

It’s about time those big lovable dinos stop getting blamed for the evil black goo...

[Fred Nerks]

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge hosts numerous hydrothermal fields (colored dots). Logatchev, Rainbow and Saldahna are underlain by variable mixtures of deeper crustal rocks (gabbros and peridotite) and both Logatchev, Rainbow host high-temperature black smokers. The other fields are also sites of black smokers, but are hosted on volcanic rocks. Lost City is currently the only known hydrothermal field composed solely of carbonate chimneys. Image courtesy of University of Washington.

[bruinbirdman]

"the Lost City Hydrothermal Field "

Isn't this the same place that life is supposed to have begun? I think I read that on a recent thread.

Stand to reason then, if the process for life creation exists in these "close mantel" areas, oil creation (hydro carbon) is not a far leap.

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