In the depths of the ocean where the Earth’s crust meets the freezing water, chemicals leak into the seawater through cracks and fissures called cold seeps. These floods of hydrocarbon-rich ...

Cold seeps, located along the Sonora Margin transform ... To investigate this mostly unknown cold and hydrocarbon-rich environment, geochemical and microbiological surveys of the sediments ...

The Collection includes extensive holdings from deep-sea environments, chemosynthetic ecosystems (hydrothermal vents, hydrocarbon seeps, whale falls), Antarctica, and the eastern Pacific. Specimens ...