Brine pool
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A brine pool, sometimes called an underwater lake, deepwater lake or brine lake, is a volume of brine collected in a seafloor depression. These pools are dense bodies of water that have a salinity tha
These craters mark the formation of brine pools where salt has seeped through the sea floor and encrusted the nearby substrate.
NOAA rendering of a brine pool in the Gulf of Mexico
Chimaeridae fish and seep mussels at edge of brine pool
Distribution of deep hypersaline anoxic basins (DHABs) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea
Cold seep
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A cold seep is an area of the ocean floor where seepage of fluids rich in hydrogen sulfide, methane, and other hydrocarbons occurs, often in the form of a brine pool. Cold does not mean that the tempe
Brine pool
…in contact with the salt, the deposits dissolve and form brines. The location of these surfacing Jurassic-period salt deposits is also associated with methane releases, giving deep-ocean brine pools their chemical characteristics. Geothermal heating: At earth's oceanic tectonic spreading centers, plates are moving…
Bacterial mat consisting of sulfide-oxidizing bacteria Beggiatoa spp. at a seep on Blake Ridge, off South Carolina. The red dots are range-finding laser beams.
A mussel bed at the edge of the brine pool
"Roots" of tubeworms also provide a supply of hydrogen sulfide from the sediment to the bacteria inside these tubeworms.