These review articles offer excellent overviews of the scientific background and broader implications of the discovery of the Lost City hydrothermal field.

• Kelley DS, Früh-Green GL, Karson JA, Ludwig KA. 2007. The Lost City Hydrothermal Field Revisited. Oceanography 20:90–99. (HTML) (PDF)
• Martin W, Baross J, Kelley D, Russell MJ. 2008. Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life. Nature Reviews Microbiology 6:805–814. (HTML) (PDF)
• Schrenk MO, Brazelton WJ, Lang SQ. 2013. Serpentinization, Carbon, and Deep Life. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 75:575–606. (HTML) (PDF)
• Lang SQ, Brazelton WJ. 2020. Habitability of the marine serpentinite subsurface: a case study of the Lost City hydrothermal field. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 378:20180429. (HTML) (PDF)
• Früh-Green GL, Kelley DS, Lilley MD, Cannat M, Chavagnac V, Baross JA. 2022. Diversity of magmatism, hydrothermal processes and microbial interactions at mid-ocean ridges. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment:1–20. (HTML) (PDF)

More than 100 peer-reviewed studies about the Lost City hydrothermal field have been published in the scientific literature. Perhaps one day this website can list them all. For now, here are the publications that have included data and samples collected during the 2018 Lost City expedition funded by NSF and led by Chief Scientist Susan Lang and Co-Chief Scientist William Brazelton.