[DOC] [TLE] Soviet Lake Offers Look at Evolution - NYTimes.com [PAR] LEAD: Scientists probing the depths of Lake Baikal in the Soviet Union have 
discovered heat escaping from cracks ... Published: August 10, 1990 .... 
Hydrothermal vents on the sea floor were first discovered in 1977 off the 
Galapagos Islands. [DOC] [TLE] Hydrothermal vent - Wikipedia [PAR] A hydrothermal vent is a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally 
heated water .... Compared to the surrounding sea floor, however, hydrothermal 
vent zones ... Although the discovery of hydrothermal vents is a relatively recent 
event in ... Other scientists on the research cruise included Richard Von Herzen 
and... [DOC] [TLE] BBC - Earth - Europa may be home to alien life [PAR] Mar 26, 2015 ... A key question will be whether there are hydrothermal vents: jets of hot chemical-
rich water shooting out of the sea floor. .... Even before Lake Vostok was 
discovered, a Russian team of scientists was drilling down towards it. They 
began in 1990, before the satellite studies, says Sergey Bulat of the... [DOC] [TLE] Vostok: Lake Under Antarctic Ice - Live Science [PAR] Jan 13, 2015 ... Lake Vostok is one of the largest subglacial lakes in the world. ... than 2 miles (
3.7 kilometers) of ice near Russia's Vostok research station. ... In the 1990s, 
Christner was part of an international team that discovered ... be a hydrothermal 
vent, similar to the ocean floor black smokers that teem with tubeworms. [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about GEOLOGY/EARTH SCI. - StudyStack [PAR] IN 1990 SCIENTISTS DISCOVERED HYDROTHERMAL VENTS ON THE FLOOR 
OF THIS RUSSIAN LAKE, LAKE BAIKAL. THERE ARE 2 MAJOR ICE SHEETS... [DOC] [TLE] Lake Vostok Contains Living Organisms Swimming Beneath 4 ... [PAR] Jul 9, 2013 ... Lake Vostok, discovered in 1956 by the Russians and was mapped in the 1990's 
by the British, is 200 meters ... Scientists discovered the genetic material in ice 
drilled from near the surface of the lake, thousands of meters down. ... that they 
could come from volcanic hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor. [DOC] [TLE] Lakes under the ice: Antarctica's secret garden : Nature News ... [PAR] Aug 20, 2014 ... Samples from a lake hidden under 800 metres of ice contain ... [DOC] [TLE] Life as We Didn't Know It | Science Mission Directorate [PAR] Apr 12, 2001 ... The discovery of hydrothermal vent ecosystems expanded that range. ... vents 
form along mid-ocean ridges, in places where the sea floor... [DOC] [TLE] Deep sea ecology: hydrothermal vents and cold seeps | WWF [PAR] When scientists first discovered these vents in the 1970s, they were amazed ... 
otherwise sparsely inhabited ocean floor, with a biomass equivalent to that of a 
rainforest. ... At first glance, the animals inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents 
may not .... Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Breaking Through the Ice at Lake Vostok - Astrobiology Magazine [PAR] Feb 16, 2012 ... Europa on Earth  that's just what Antarctica's deep and dark Lake Vostok could 
be. ... Undiscovered until the 1990s, it since then became the goal of one of ... of 
stop-and-go drilling, a team of Russian scientists and engineers did what .... 
some Russian researchers theorize is a large hydrothermal vent that... [DOC] [TLE] Lake Vostok's Life Forms? Antarctic Lake's Ice Harbors Thousands ... [PAR] Jul 9, 2013 ... Antarctic Lake's Ice Harbors Thousands Of Species' DNA, Study Hints (VIDEO) ... 
since they were extracted in the 1990s by Russian scientists. ... In their new study
, Rogers and his colleagues discovered genetic sequences from ... Among the 
bacteria were species that live in hydrothermal vents and... [DOC] [TLE] Lake Vostok - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Columbia ... [PAR] Nov 7, 1998 ... surrounding deep sea hydrothermal vents (Karl, 1995), it is important ... 
unmanned, planetary missions to recently discovered ice-covered .... The 
identification of Lake Vostok in 1996 by Russian and British scientists (Kapitsa et 
al., .... pattern) and hypothesized gas hydrates (

Question: In 1990 scientists discovered hydrothermal vents on the floor of this Russian lake
Answer: Lake Baikal