Ding Kang

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    Deep high-temperature hydrothermal circulation in a detachment faulting system on the ultra-slow spreading ridge
    (Nature Research, 2020-03-10) Tao, Chunhui ; Seyfried, William E. ; Lowell, Robert P. ; Liu, Yunlong ; Liang, Jin ; Guo, Zhikui ; Ding, Kang ; Zhang, Huatian ; Liu, Jia ; Qiu, Lei ; Egorov, Igor ; Liao, Shili ; Zhao, Minghui ; Zhou, JianPing ; Deng, Xianming ; Li, Huaiming ; Wang, Hanchuang ; Cai, Wei ; Zhang, Guoyin ; Zhou, Hongwei ; Lin, Jian ; Li, Wei
    Coupled magmatic and tectonic activity plays an important role in high-temperature hydrothermal circulation at mid-ocean ridges. The circulation patterns for such systems have been elucidated by microearthquakes and geochemical data over a broad spectrum of spreading rates, but such data have not been generally available for ultra-slow spreading ridges. Here we report new geophysical and fluid geochemical data for high-temperature active hydrothermal venting at Dragon Horn area (49.7°E) on the Southwest Indian Ridge. Twin detachment faults penetrating to the depth of 13 ± 2 km below the seafloor were identified based on the microearthquakes. The geochemical composition of the hydrothermal fluids suggests a long reaction path involving both mafic and ultramafic lithologies. Combined with numerical simulations, our results demonstrate that these hydrothermal fluids could circulate ~ 6 km deeper than the Moho boundary and to much greater depths than those at Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse and Logachev-1 hydrothermal fields on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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    Bacterial diversity and successional patterns during biofilm formation on freshly exposed basalt surfaces at diffuse-flow deep-sea vents
    (Frontiers Media, 2015-09-10) Gulmann, Lara K. ; Beaulieu, Stace E. ; Shank, Timothy M. ; Ding, Kang ; Seyfried, William E. ; Sievert, Stefan M.
    Many deep-sea hydrothermal vent systems are regularly impacted by volcanic eruptions, leaving fresh basalt where abundant animal and microbial communities once thrived. After an eruption, microbial biofilms are often the first visible evidence of biotic re-colonization. The present study is the first to investigate microbial colonization of newly exposed basalt surfaces in the context of vent fluid chemistry over an extended period of time (4–293 days) by deploying basalt blocks within an established diffuse-flow vent at the 9°50′ N vent field on the East Pacific Rise. Additionally, samples obtained after a recent eruption at the same vent field allowed for comparison between experimental results and those from natural microbial re-colonization. Over 9 months, the community changed from being composed almost exclusively of Epsilonproteobacteria to a more diverse assemblage, corresponding with a potential expansion of metabolic capabilities. The process of biofilm formation appears to generate similar surface-associated communities within and across sites by selecting for a subset of fluid-associated microbes, via species sorting. Furthermore, the high incidence of shared operational taxonomic units over time and across different vent sites suggests that the microbial communities colonizing new surfaces at diffuse-flow vent sites might follow a predictable successional pattern.