https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_seep
A cold seep (sometimes called a cold vent) is an area of the ocean floor where seepage of fluids rich in hydrogen sulfide, methane, and other hydrocarbons occurs, often in the form of a brine pool. Cold does not mean that the temperature of the seepage is lower than that of the surrounding sea water; on the contrary, its temperature is often slightly higher.

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/materials/what-are-cold-seeps-fact-sheet.pdf
Learn what cold seeps are, how they form, and why they are important for the ocean and the climate. Explore different types of seeps, their habitats, and their ecological and resource significance.

https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/ocean-life/ecosystems/life-at-vents-seeps/
Learn about the ecosystems and organisms that thrive at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, where chemical-rich fluids provide energy for chemosynthetic life. Explore the discoveries, applications, and challenges of studying these extreme habitats and their inhabitants.

https://deepoceaneducation.org/resources/cold-seeps/
Learn about cold seeps, places where hydrocarbon-rich fluids and gases escape from the seafloor. Find out how seeps form, what types of seeps exist, and why they are important for deep-sea ecology and climate.

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/themes/cold-seeps/welcome.html
Learn about cold seeps, locations where hydrocarbon-rich fluid seeps up from below the seafloor, and the chemosynthetic communities that thrive there. Explore lessons, fact sheets, exploration notes, and more resources on cold seeps and their ecosystems.

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-54529-5_27-1
Learn about the geologic settings, biogeochemical reactions, and biologic activities of marine cold seeps, which are windows into different depth levels of the submerged geosphere. Explore the global distribution, characteristics, and products of seep fluids and footprints, as well as their environmental and archaeological significance.

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/themes/cold-seeps/essays.html
Learn about cold seeps, places where chemicals escape from the seafloor and support chemosynthetic ecosystems. Explore fact sheets, essays, and multimedia from NOAA expeditions to different cold seep sites around the world.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1367912018304127
Cold seeps are seafloor manifestations of methane-rich fluid migration from the sedimentary subsurface to the seabed and into the water column, and ultimately some of the methane may even reach the atmosphere (e.g., Boetius and Wenzhöfer, 2013, Suess, 2014, Ceramicola et al., 2018).Seeps are now recognized as important pathways of element cycling on Earth, representing areas that are typified

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-021-00932-y
Marine cold seeps are typically found at the edges of continental shelves and feature mainly gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons from deep geologic sources [1, 2].Seep fluids can be produced through

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/cold-seep
Learn about cold seeps, the areas of the ocean floor where hydrocarbon-rich fluid seepage occurs and supports unique ecosystems. Explore chapters and articles on cold seep geology, biology, chemistry, and exploration methods.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-57852-1_19
Learn about the origin, evolution, form, and occurrence of cold seep systems, seafloor manifestations of fluid migration from subsurface to seabed and water column. Explore examples of mud volcanoes, pockmarks, carbonate structures, and brine pools from recent discoveries in Mediterranean region.

https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Microbiology/Microbiology_(Boundless)/16%3A_Microbial_Ecology/16.03%3A_Aquatic_Microbiology/16.3E%3A_Cold-Seep_Ecosystems
A cold seep (sometimes called a cold vent) is an area of the ocean floor where hydrogen sulfide, methane, and other hydrocarbon-rich fluid seepage occurs, often in the form of a brine pool. "Cold" does not mean temperature of seepage is lower than surrounding sea water. Actually, its temperature is often slightly higher.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01484-7
Fig. 1: The depth profile of the geochemical characteristics in the sediment cores from the Haima cold seep, South China Sea. Fig. 3: Plots of Hg isotopes in the sediment cores and mussels from

https://ocean.si.edu/ecosystems/deep-sea/deep-sea
Cold Seeps. A cold seep is a place on the ocean floor where fluids and gases trapped deep in the earth percolate up to the seafloor. A cold seep gets its name not because the liquid and gas that emerge are colder than the surrounding seawater, but because they are cooler than the scalding temperature of the similar hydrothermal vent.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318602933_Cold_Seep_Systems
The cold seep activity creates a unique environment on the deep sea floor, and gave birth to a unique authigenic mineral- seep carbonate. In 2018, a new paleo-seep was discovered in the vicinity

https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/475-cold-seep-communities
Learn about cold seeps, places where methane and hydrogen sulfide escape from the seafloor and support unique ecosystems. Discover how bacteria, mussels, clams, tubeworms and other organisms form symbiotic relationships and feed on the seep water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2a9LJ3ZqAM
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https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/themes/cold-seeps/lessons.html
Learn about cold seeps, underwater vents where methane and hydrogen sulfide escape from the seafloor and support unique life forms. Explore lessons, activities, and multimedia for grades 5-12 on cold seeps, methane hydrates, and chemosynthesis.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GC008747
A newly compiled, open-source database of focused fluid flow sites (e.g., cold seeps) and associated SEAfloor FLuid Expulsion Anomalies (SEAFLEAs) reveals a variable distribution of anomalies across global continental margins. The SEAFLEA distribution is heavily biased toward North American continental margins, with most observations between

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-a-cold-seep.html
A cold seep is a shallow area in the ocean floor where hydrocarbon-rich fluids, such as methane and hydrogen sulfide, leak into the sea water. Learn about the types, components, and threats of cold seeps, and how they support chemosynthetic communities and unique habitats.

https://schmidtocean.org/scientists-locate-chiles-deepest-known-cold-seeps/
Shallower cold seeps, like methane seeps, are usually located by finding bubbles coming from the ocean floor in SONAR data; the soundwaves sent to the seafloor that are used for mapping it. The bubbles are not always visible for deeper seeps, making locating them more challenging. A methane seep documented on the seafloor during Dive 681.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381521052_Integrative_taxonomy_of_a_new_giant_deep-sea_caudofoveate_from_South_China_Sea_cold_seeps
IMPORTANCE Cold seeps occur in continental margins worldwide and are deep-sea oases. Anaerobic oxidation of methane is an important microbial process in the cold seeps and plays an important role

https://www.biodiversitya-z.org/content/cold-seep
Cold seep ecosystems are found where sulphur and methane emerge from seafloor sediments without an appreciable temperature rise 1.Also known as cold vents, seeps form by a variety of processes related to over-pressuring (e.g. of sediments, or from mineral dehydration reactions and gas hydrate dynamics) 2.These environments, and the communities associated with them, are among the most recently

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/seeps-vents.html
Learn the differences between cold seeps and hydrothermal vents, two types of deep-sea ecosystems driven by chemosynthesis. Cold seeps have stable fluid temperatures, emit hydrocarbons, and host long-lived organisms, while hydrothermal vents are volatile, acidic, mineral-rich, and fast-growing.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/world/article289092349.html
The newly active cold seep, a "natural phenomena" that causes "hydrocarbon-rich fluids and gases" to seep into the water through the sand and rock, was first discovered in 2015, according

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/researchers-spot-sea-pig-in-chile-s-deepest-known-cold-seeps-located-2-836-metres-below-the-sea/ar-BB1ouVCH
Cold seeps, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are locations where hydrocarbon-rich fluid like methane or hydrogen sulphide seeps up from below the seafloor.

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/edu/materials/cold-seep-communities-fact-sheet.pdf
Cold Seep Communities. Mussels and/or tubeworms often dominate cold seep regions, creating complex habitats used by other organisms, such as squat lobsters, crabs, shrimps, sea cucumbers, and snails. Many of these animals feed directly on the bacterial mats or on the detritus produced by the mussels and tubeworms.

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It is 3:30 in the cold, starlit Sunday morning, November 13, and the quiet on King Road is all enveloping. ... Their blood seeps into the mattress in a spreading red stain. Yet despite her wounds

https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1304/background/coldseeps/welcome.html
Cold seeps develop unique topography over time, where reactions between methane and seawater and in many cases, the influence of microbial activity, create carbonate rock formations and habitat for diverse faunal assemblages. When methane seepage decreases, the dominant fauna supported by the reduced chemicals decrease in abundance and as the