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Hydrothermal vent covered in purple growth.

Hydrothermal vent covered in purple growth.
Hydrothermal vent covered in purple growth.
Hydrothermal vent covered in purple growth.
Hydrothermal vent covered in purple growth.
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Hydrothermal vent covered in purple growth.
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01/01/2020
Purple carpet vent.jpg
Date is approximate.
Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2, Pages 16 and 17:
A shag carpet of single-celled organisms, including filamentous bacteria and microeukaryotic colonial mats, grows beside a hydrothermal vent at Axial Seamount.
Photo courtesy of Julie Huber, WHOI/ NSF/ROV Jason 2023 © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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