It takes the average reader 7 hours and 42 minutes to read The Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents by Cindy Lee Van Dover
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Teeming with weird and wonderful life--giant clams and mussels, tubeworms, "eyeless" shrimp, and bacteria that survive on sulfur--deep-sea hot-water springs are found along rifts where sea-floor spreading occurs. The theory of plate tectonics predicted the existence of these hydrothermal vents, but they were discovered only in 1977. Since then the sites have attracted teams of scientists seeking to understand how life can thrive in what would seem to be intolerable or extreme conditions of temperature and fluid chemistry. Some suspect that these vents even hold the key to understanding the...
The Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents by Cindy Lee Van Dover is 448 pages long, and a total of 115,584 words.
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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 31 minutes to read The Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents aloud.
The Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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