cold seep

ENVO:01000263 ·resolve ·AQUATIC ·EXACT REVIEWED

MERGED DEFINITION: TARGET DEFINITION: A cold seep is a seep in which methane and other hydrocarbon-rich fluids rise to the sea floor. -------------------- SOURCE DEFINITION: An area of the ocean floor where hydrogen sulfide, methane and other hydrocarbon-rich fluid seepage occurs. Cold seeps are distinct from hydrothermal vents: the former's emissions are of the same temperature as the surrounding seawater, whereas the latter's emissions are super-heated. — ENVO

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Cold seeps 2 GOLD ecosystem node ids share this path; first shown. See data/raw/gold_ecosystem_paths.tsv.	11	ORGANISM

Broader habitats

marine water body ENVO:00001999
seep ENVO:01000262

Also called

Cold seeps — GOLD
hydrocarbon seep — ENVO
methane seep — ENVO

Curation

What a curator decided about this record, and why. A record built from several source concepts can carry one decision per concept.

GROUND 2026-08-12 · claude-opus-5
Grounded to ENVO:01000263 'cold seep' (EXACT). Leaf label equals the ENVO label exactly and no other source concept claims it. Path: Environmental > Aquatic > Marine > Cold seeps (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.95dbf8d7ac)

Provenance

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