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Hydrothermal Seeps on the Costa Rica Margin
March 8, 2012 | Live Science

LiveScience has an interesting article on the forms of life encountered around a deep-sea vent system at the boundary of the Cocos and Caribbean Plates off the west coast of Costa Rica.


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