地球物理学家们在1980年3月报告说,在对太平洋海底的一项重要研究中发现了从地球中流出的最热的水。这些水是由一个科学家考察队发现的,当时他们正在沿着“东太平洋隆起”轴调查太平洋海底2.5公里深部的岩石及其成形过程的性质。他们所调查的地点在墨西哥南下加利福尼亚顶端圣卢卡斯角以南大约800公里。这个考察队是由来自美国、法国和墨西哥的20多名科学家组成,由加利福尼亚大学斯克里普斯海洋研究所的地球物理学家斯派斯(Fr-ank N.Speiss)和麦克唐纳(Ken C.Mc Do- Geophysicists reported in March 1980 that they found the hottest water flowing out of the earth in an important study of the seabed of the Pacific Ocean. The water was discovered by a team of scientists who were surveying the depth of 2.5 kilometers of the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and the nature of the formation along the “uplift of the Eastern Pacific” axis. They surveyed about 800 kilometers south of San Lucas Point, the tip of Mexico’s south coast to California. The expedition consisted of more than 20 scientists from the United States, France and Mexico and was co-authored by Fr-ank N.Speiss and Ken, geoscientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, C. Mc Do-