Deep beneath the oceans, continental plates grind together. Sea water seeps into the ocean floor, contacts superheated rock and roars back out through hydrothermal vents. Surrounding those vents, darkness, pressure, poison gas and heavy metal, acidity and temperatures ranging from freezing to hot enough to melt lead create a zone that would instantly kill most …
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The ocean
I’ve always been fascinated by the ocean: the endless rolling of the waves, the water’s changing moods, the limitless horizon. Or maybe it’s just because, coming from the dry prairies, I’m amazed that anything can be that big and wet. How big and wet? The ocean covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface: 361 million …
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