2000年12月的某日深夜,当研究船“亚特兰提斯号”在大西洋拖曳着水下约700米深的照相机航行时,地质学家发现水中有个雪白烟囱,热得发出微光。研究小组以潜航器探查,发现了一个由许多尖塔构成的“红树林”,其中一个尖塔高达18米。他们将这个地方称为“失落的城市”,这是一个全新类型的热液喷溢道区。热能来自海水与某种地壳下岩石(称为“橄榄岩”)的化学反应。当碱性溶液冒出时,碳酸钙会凝结.形成石笋状的构造。 In the middle of a certain day in December 2000, when the research ship Atlantis was towing a camera about 700 meters deep under the Atlantic Ocean, geologists discovered that there was a snow-white chimney in the water, which was so hot that it shimmered. . The team probed with submersibles and discovered a “mangrove” made up of many spires, one of which was 18 meters high. They call this place a “lost city,” a new type of hydrothermal spillway. Thermal energy comes from the chemical reaction of seawater with certain rocks beneath the earth’s crust (known as “olivine rocks”). When the alkaline solution erupts, the calcium carbonate will condense and form a stalagmite-like structure.