Perched atop the submerged mountain Atlantis along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the Lost City Hydrothermal Field features a jagged ...

It was located west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Science Alert reported that the area is said to be the longest-lived venting environment in the sea. Scientists now believe that the Lost City could ...

By comparison, the temperature of crustal fluids can reach 400 degrees C at hydrothermal vents in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where tectonic plates are diverging and new oceanic crust is being formed.