人们对于海底热液矿床的研究与对洋底锰结核研究相比,其历史要短得多。从1965年首次在红海发现热液重金属泥以来,进展颇快,十多年时间里相继在太平洋、大西洋和印度洋的许多海域发现了热液矿床(矿物)。其分布虽不及锰结核普遍,但矿床集中,品位高,离大陆较近,水深浅,与板块运动有关,因此无论在经济上还是在丰富地质学的成矿理论上都有重大意义,也是板块运动的一种佐证。 The study of hydrothermal seabed deposits has a much shorter history than that of oceanic manganese nodules. Since the discovery of hydrothermal heavy metal mud for the first time in the Red Sea in 1965, progress has been rapid and hydrothermal deposits (minerals) have been found in many areas of the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans for more than a decade. Although its distribution is not as common as manganese nodules, it is of great significance both in economy and in rich geological geology and mineralization, but the mineral deposits are concentrated, of high grade, close to the mainland and shallow in depth, and are related to plate tectonics. An example of exercise.