海底黑烟囱喷出的热液温度可达350–400°C，为什么这些流体不会沸腾汽化？这一特性造就了怎样的海底景观？
Hydrothermal fluids leaving black smokers reach 350-400 degrees C, so why do they not boil? What seafloor features does this behaviour produce?
水的沸点随压强升高。约2500米深的洋底静水压强近25兆帕，把海水的沸点线抬升至400°C左右，因此高温热液得以全程保持单一液相；只有在接近海底减压、逼近两相界线时才会闪蒸出汽。高温流体携带的金属硫化物遇冷海水立即沉淀，筑起烟囱体并支撑起化能合成生态系统，长期累积则形成海底块状硫化物矿床。
Water boils hotter under pressure: near 2,500 m depth the roughly 25 MPa hydrostatic load lifts seawater's boiling curve to around 400 degrees C, so hot vent fluid stays a single liquid phase and flashes to vapour only where it decompresses toward the two-phase boundary close to the seafloor. Dissolved metals precipitate instantly on mixing with cold seawater, building chimney walls that shelter chemosynthetic communities and, accumulated over millennia, seafloor massive-sulfide deposits.
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Von Damm, K. L.：《海底热液活动：黑烟囱化学与烟囱体》，《地球与行星科学年鉴》（Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences），1990年，18卷173–204页
Von Damm, K. L., 'Seafloor hydrothermal activity: black smoker chemistry and chimneys', Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1990, vol. 18, pp. 173-204
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#黑烟囱 #热液流体 #两相界线 #块状硫化物
海水渗入新生洋壳、经历热液循环后再喷出时，化学成分会发生哪些系统性改变？
When seawater seeps into young oceanic crust, circulates through it and re-emerges as vent fluid, how is its chemistry systematically changed?
冷海水沿洋壳裂隙下渗并被加热，与玄武岩反应：镁几乎全部转入蚀变矿物而从流体中消失，钙、钾、铁、锰和硫化氢等则从岩石中淋出进入流体，端元热液因此高温、酸性强且具还原性。这些流体返回海洋时沉淀出金属硫化物烟囱。在全球尺度上，这一循环持续调节着海洋的镁、钙及多种微量金属收支。
Cold seawater percolates down cracks in the young crust and heats up, reacting with basalt: nearly all its magnesium is locked into alteration minerals and lost from the fluid, while calcium, potassium, iron, manganese and hydrogen sulfide are leached from the rock. End-member fluids therefore emerge hot, acidic and reducing, and they precipitate metal-sulfide chimneys on meeting seawater. Globally, this circulation continuously reshapes the ocean's budgets of magnesium, calcium and many trace metals.
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出处备注：著录含书名，但缺版次 / 出版社 / 年份中的一部分，需编辑补全后才能做独立比对。
Elderfield与Schultz，《自然》第380卷第121–124页，1996年
Elderfield, H. & Schultz, A., Nature 380, 121–124 (1996)
#海底热液 #洋壳蚀变 #镁亏损 #化学通量
深海底的热液喷口终年不见天日、无法进行光合作用，生活在那里的巨型管虫靠什么获取营养？
Deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites never see sunlight and cannot support photosynthesis, so how do giant tube worms living there get their nourishment?
巨型管虫没有口和消化道，体内却栖居着大量化能合成细菌：热液流体中的硫化氢经管虫的特化器官吸收，随血液输送给共生硫氧化菌；细菌氧化硫化氢获得能量，将二氧化碳固定为有机物，并把一部分供给宿主。这种化能共生支撑起热液区不依赖阳光的高生产力群落，推翻了深海生命只能仰赖上层海洋沉降食物的观念。
Giant tube worms lack mouths and guts, yet their bodies house masses of chemosynthetic bacteria: hydrogen sulfide from vent fluid is taken up by specialized tissue and shipped through blood to sulfur-oxidizing symbionts; the bacteria oxidize sulfide for energy and fix carbon dioxide into organic matter, sharing part with the host. This chemosymbiosis sustains the highly productive, sun-independent communities of vent fields, overturning the notion that deep-sea life subsists solely on organic fallout from upper waters.
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Cavanaugh 等《热液管虫Riftia pachyptila体内的原核细胞：可能的化能自养共生者》Science 213(4506):340-342, 1981, DOI:10.1126/science.213.4506.340
Cavanaugh et al., "Prokaryotic Cells in the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm Riftia pachyptila Jones: Possible Chemoautotrophic Symbionts", Science 213(4506):340-342, 1981, DOI:10.1126/science.213.4506.340
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#化能合成 #硫氧化共生 #巨型管虫 #深海热液