Fossil clams from a serpentinite‐hosted sedimented vent field near the active smoker complex Rainbow, MAR, 36°13′N: Insight into the biogeography of vent fauna

Lartaud, Franck; de Rafélis, Marc; Oliver, Graham; M. Krylova, Elena; Dyment, J.; Ildefonse, Benoı̂t; Thibaud, Rémy; Gente, Pascal; Hoisé, E.; Meistertzheim, Anne‐Leïla; Fouquet, Yves; Gaill, Françoise; Le Bris, Nadine

doi:10.1029/2010gc003079

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Fossil clams from a serpentinite‐hosted sedimented vent field near the active smoker complex Rainbow, MAR, 36°13′N: Insight into the biogeography of vent fauna

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Authors:

Franck Lartaud

Marc de Rafélis

Graham Oliver

Abstract

Hydrothermal circulation at ultramafic‐hosted sites supports a large variety of high‐ and low‐temperature hydrothermal vents and associated ecosystems. The discovery of abundant fossil vesicomyid and thyasirid shell accumulations at the ridge crest, approximately 2.5 km east of the active Rainbow ve...

Subject

Hydrothermal vent

Chemosynthesis

Geology

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