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January 11, 2012

Can Microbes Unlock Secrets of Ocean Crust?

Nat'l Science Foundation, National Science Foundation


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Of all the habitable parts of our planet, one ecosystem still remains largely unexplored and unknown to science: the igneous ocean crust.

This rocky realm of hard volcanic lava exists beneath ocean sediments that lie at the bottom of much of the world's oceans.

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TAGGED: earth's crust, ocean floor, archaea, bacteria

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