Thanks to submarines, Sonar and robotic vehicles, the international scientific community is obtaining great progress in the study of the ocean dorsal areas, where the earthly crust is always in continuous process of formation and movement, following the separation of busty plaques. It is in this area that there is a greater concentration of life on the seabed, thanks to the heat that filters from inside the earth's crust. Thanks to the submarine volcanoes we can meet large sources of life.
Until now, a great biodiversity has been found of invertebrates and micro-organisms, such as worms, prawns with eyes on the back and other species that only are found in this ecosystem.
Another phenomenon designed by these scientists are the so -called " fumarole ", deep thermal sources that are formed following the water of the sea that filters in the subsoil and heated re -emergers through small craters formed in the seabed.
The bacterial species that live near these phenomena are of particular interest in science, since they endure extreme pressure temperatures and changes of pressure, so they could be of great utility for the human being in industrial processes.
Pero, apart from the applications that could be devised for these micro-organisms in the future, the great theory that scholars are spurring to go on in their investigations is that it was probably precisely in suchEnvironmental context, at over 3000 meters of profit, which appeared for the first time life on Earth.
