Does anyone know anything about hydrothermal vents or continental drift?

Question

if so plz share. thanks.

Answer 1

That is such a general question!  If you search the Internet, you will find a large amount of material.  I suggest that you start with Wikipedia.  It has excellent articles and gives links to other sites.

The search box is on the left: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Answer 2

The continental drift theory is the "pangia theory", the one that states that all the continents used tobe joined together before they drifted apart. Hydrothermal vents are fissures in Earth's surface from which geothermally heated water issues. Hydrothermal vents are commonly found near volcanically active places, areas where tectonic plates are moving apart, ocean basins, and hotspots.

Answer 3

A hydrothermal vent is a geyser on the seafloor. It continuously spews super-hot, mineral-rich water that helps support a diverse community of organisms. In some areas along the Mid-Ocean Ridge, the gigantic plates that form the Earth's crust are moving apart, creating cracks and crevices in the ocean floor. Seawater seeps into these openings and is heated by the molten rock, or magma, that lies beneath the Earth's crust. As the water is heated, it rises and seeks a path back out into the ocean through an opening in the seafloor

The Earth's rocky outer crust solidified billions of years ago, soon after the Earth formed. This crust is not a solid shell; it is broken up into huge, thick plates that drift atop the soft, underlying mantle.

The plates are made of rock and drift all over the globe; they move both horizontally (sideways) and vertically (up and down). Over long periods of time, the plates also change in size as their margins are added to, crushed together, or pushed back into the Earth's mantle. These plates are from 50 to 250 miles (80 to 400 km) thick.