Explore global hydrothermal vents—from mid-ocean ridges to arc volcanoes—and see how confirmed and inferred vents are worldwide.
Sources:
- InterRidge Vents Database Version 2.0, credit: S.E. Beaulieu, 2010, InterRidge Global Database of Active Submarine Hydrothermal Vent Fields: prepared for InterRidge, Version 2.0. World Wide Web electronic publication; Beaulieu, Stace E; Szafra?ski, Kamil M (2020) InterRidge Global Database of Active Submarine Hydrothermal Vent Fields Version 3.4. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.917894
- Exclusive Economic Zones Version 5, credit: Flanders Marine Institute, 2009; current version 10 available online at http://www.marineregions.org/
- Plate boundaries (Ridge & Transform, Trench), credit: University of Texas PLATES Project.
