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The Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents (1st Edition) by Cindy Van Dover Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-691-04929-7 / 0691049297 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-04929-8 / 9780691049298 Teeming with weird and wonderful life--giant clams and mussels, tubeworms, "eyeless" shrimp, and bacteria that survive on sulfur--deep-sea hot-water springs are found along rifts where sea-floor spreading occurs. The theory of plate tectonics predicted the existence of these hydrothermal vents, but |