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    vatn) is an active volcano with a (partially subglacial) fissure system located in Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland. The central volcano is completely subglacial...
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    Poás Volcano (Spanish: Volcán Poás), is an active 2,697-metre (8,848 ft) stratovolcano in central Costa Rica and is located within Poas Volcano National...
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    Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount (category Submarine volcanoes)
    Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount (previously known as Lōʻihi) is an active submarine volcano about 22 mi (35 km) off the southeast coast of the island of Hawaii. The...
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    Haleakalā (redirect from East Maui volcano)
    Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈhɐlɛˈjɐkəˈlaː]), or the East Maui Volcano, is a massive, active shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui...
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    Iron-oxidizing bacteria (or iron bacteria) are chemotrophic bacteria that derive energy by oxidizing dissolved iron. They are known to grow and proliferate...
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    volcanoes, at depths where the boiling point of water is higher than the melting point of sulfur. Native sulfur is synthesized by anaerobic bacteria acting...
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    Ojos del Salado is a dormant complex volcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border. It is the highest volcano on Earth and the highest peak in Chile...
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    methane hydrate, also spewed from the volcano. This kind of an environment proves attractive to chemical-loving bacteria and tubeworms, although the exact...
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    known as the scaly-foot gastropod, scaly-foot snail, sea pangolin, or volcano snail is a species of deep-sea hydrothermal-vent snail, a marine gastropod...
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  • Aquifex pyrophilus (category Bacteria described in 1992)
    thermophilic bacterium of all known bacteria. A. pyrophilus is an aquatic microbe that is typically found near underwater volcanoes, marine hydrothermal vents...
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