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The Marine Deep Sea Zone

  • Cold Seep Communities
    Information on organisms, particularly those in Monterey Bay, CA, associated with cold seeps.
    http://bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov/sitechar/cold.html
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
  • Hot Vents
    Much text and interesting photos of hydrothermal vents and their associated fauna, taken by the submersible Alvin.
    http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/hotvent.html
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
  • Introduction to the Pogonophora
    The U.C. Berkeley site on the tubeworms which inhabit the hot vents.
    http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/annelida/pogonophora.html
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
  • Life Without Light
    A tour through the cold-seep habitats in the Gulf of Mexico. Interesting information and photographs of a different type of deep-sea habitat.
    http://www.bio.psu.edu/People/Faculty/Fisher/cold_seeps/
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)
  • Paul Yancey's Deep-Sea Page
    Interesting links to research in deep oceanic habits, the organisms that live there, with newly updated discoveries.
    http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/deepsea.html
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)

Under Sea Tectonic and Volcanic Activity

  • Video Clips
    This shows video highlights from NOAA/VENTS research activities including shots from the submersibles. Interesting videos of tubeworms, and other interesting organisms inhabiting the vent habitat.
    http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/geology/video.html
    (Added: Sat Jul 14 2001)

A Living Trace Fossil? Two references

Phylum Pogonophora

  • Pogonophora
    Arizona's Tree of Life Web Page. Pictures, characteristics, phylogenetic relationships, references on pogonophorans. References on these interesting tube worms.
    http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/pogonophora/pogonophor
    (Added: Mon Jul 02 2001)
  • Vestimentifera
    Arizona's Tree of Life Web Page. Some pictures, characteristics, phylogenetic relationships, but mostly references on this phyla.
    http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/vestimentifera/vestime
    (Added: Mon Jul 02 2001)







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