How to Use hydrothermal in a Sentence
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Pets are also banned in the hydrothermal areas of the park.
— Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023 -
The hydrothermal springs are as big of a finding as the new species of octopus.
— Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024 -
Water from rain and snow that falls on the highlands of the park feeds its hydrothermal system.
— Mike Morris, latimes.com, 12 July 2019 -
But close to the hydrothermal springs, the water is a balmy 51 degrees Fahrenheit.
— Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2023 -
These hydrothermal vents are fissures in the rocky core of Enceladus.
— Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2017 -
Thousands of years ago, hydrothermal vents fed worms deep below the ice.
— Matt Simon, Wired, 8 Feb. 2022 -
There are extreme forms of life on Earth that draw energy from hydrothermal vents deep under the sea, rather than from the sun.
— Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2020 -
The ground around hydrothermal areas of the park is thin and fragile, and scalding water lies just below the surface.
— Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022 -
In 1977 hydrothermal vents in the deep sea were discovered.
— Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020 -
Yellowstone is home to half of the world's hydrothermal features — from hot springs to geysers.
— Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2022 -
One of these areas, Norris Geyser Basin to the northwest of the caldera, contains more than 500 hydrothermal features.
— National Geographic, 19 Mar. 2020 -
The tug causes hydrothermal activity, which warms the oceans and causes the geysers, all in the kinds of hot beds that sprouted life on Earth.
— John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022 -
In a park rich with hydrothermal features, these hot springs are a stunning favorite.
— Star Tribune, 27 Nov. 2020 -
These include a groundwater sample found nearly two miles deep in a South African gold mine and at hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.
— Margi Murphy, Fox News, 24 May 2017 -
One - to study hydrothermal vents in the Gulf of Alaska/North Pacific and document the impact the vents are having on the climate and fisheries.
— Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020 -
But hydrothermal vents are like the Santa Barbaras of the abyss, peaceful respites where life can be abundant and flourishing.
— Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021 -
The hydrogen may be produced by the deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the moon's seafloor, in a similar way that may have started life on Earth as well, reports Mike Wall Space.com.
— Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2021 -
Only the hazy shimmer of escaping hot water meeting the frigid sea alerted the researchers to the hydrothermal seep.
— Christina Larson, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023 -
Any gold that has formed on the crystal takes on the voltage from the quartz and acts like a magnet for additional gold particles in Earth’s hydrothermal liquid.
— Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2024 -
The ground in hydrothermal areas is fragile and thin and there is scalding water just below the surface, park officials said.
— Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020 -
The summit hosts a warm crater lake (Te Wai ā-moe) that sees changes in chemistry and temperature thanks to the hydrothermal system and magma under the volcano's summit.
— Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2022 -
Ballard was also instrumental in discovering new forms of life at hydrothermal vents on the floor of the ocean.
— Tony Bradley, Forbes, 14 June 2021 -
These microbes are often found in acid mine drainage as well as hydrothermal systems, like Laguna Caliente.
— Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Feb. 2022 -
There’s no other snail in the world armored like the Crysomallon squamiferum, which lives over hydrothermal vents deep in the Indian Ocean.
— Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022 -
The veins’ width and size imply that for thousands—if not millions—of years, Bennu’s parent body had a sizable amount of hydrothermal activity.
— National Geographic, 8 Oct. 2020 -
If active hydrothermal vents are here, they’ll likely be marked by telltale spires of carbonate.
— James Nestor, Scientific American, 12 Feb. 2018 -
At hydrothermal vents on Earth, the hydrogen is quickly gobbled up by microbes.
— Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2017 -
Jupiter’s moon Europa is covered in a thick layer of ice that is believed to conceal a planet-wide ocean, which means that any lifeforms there would have cropped up around hydrothermal vents deep beneath the surface.
— Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 9 July 2020 -
This suggested that hydrothermal vents might be present.
— Suzanne Oconnell, The Conversation, 22 June 2021 -
The Biscuit Basin hike is a popular .6 mile excursion that leads past many hydrothermal features.
— Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
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