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Guaymas Basin, Northern Trough_2

MGDS_FeatureID lowest in hierarchy: 
Maximum Temperature: 
331
Max Temperature Category: 
Latitude: 
27.4110
Longitude: 
-111.3879
Location on map: 
Ocean: 
National Jurisdiction: 
Maximum or Single Reported Depth (mbsl): 
1800
Tectonic setting: 
Full Spreading Rate (mm/a): 
45.8
Volcano Number (if applicable): 
Host Rock: 
NotProvided
Deposit Type: 
NotProvided
Notes on Vent Field Description: 
position based on mid points of the ROV transect on 6th July 2015, depth is based on that position in Global Multi-Resolution Topography database; Discovery of a large hot vent site in the Gulf of California: https://www.geomar.de/en/discover/articles/article/ungewoehnlich-grosse-heisse-quellen-im-golf-von-kalifornien-entdeckt-kopie-1/; Exploring Guaymas Basin in the Gulf of California: https://nautiluslive.org/blog/2017/10/19/exploring-guaymas-basin-gulf-california; Soule et al. (2018): "The 400 m long ridge is made up of four mounds, each of which has a black smoker at its peak. The highly complex vent structures rise 10 m to 30 m from the tops of the mounds and often widen at their tops... Fluid temperatures at the sites reached 331 C as measured by isobaric gas-tight samplers. A similar vent system was found just outside the axial graben, only 1 km north of the black smoker site (H1656). This site also displayed focused venting at 70°C, with vent structures and animal communities (Figure 2d) comparable to those at the Ringvent site.";
Notes Relevant to Biology: 
Soule et al. (2018): "This site (H1656) hosted isolated R. pachyptila tubeworms that were common at the black smoker site.";
Year and How Discovered (if active, visual confirmation is listed first): 
2015 ROV Hybis
Discovery References (text): 
Short Cruise Report, Sonne 241, Manzanillo - Guayaquil, 23.6.2015 – 24.7.2015: https://www.ldf.uni-hamburg.de/en/sonne/wochenberichte/wochenberichte-sonne/so240-241/so241-scr.pdf;
Berndt, C. et al. (2016) Rifting under steam - How rift magmatism triggers methane venting from sedimentary basins. Geology 44 (9): 767-770, http://doi.org/10.1130/G38049.1;
Other References (text): 
Soule, A. et al. (2018) Exploration of the Northern Guaymas Basin. Oceanography 31 (1, supplement): 39-41, http://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2018.supplement.01;