needles provide evidence for vast oceanic crustal biosphere
15-foot hypodermic needles provide evidence for vast oceanic crustal biosphere
Teeming with heat-loving microbes, samples of fluid drawn from the crustal rocks that make up most of the Earth's seafloor are providing the best evidence yet to support the controversial assertion that life is widespread within oceanic crust, according to H. Paul Johnson, a University of Washington oceanographer. Johnson is lead author of a report being published March 25 in the American Geophysical Union's publication Eos about a National Science Foundation-funded expedition he led last summer.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-03/uow-1hn031703.php
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