Life gets extreme in seafloor chimneys
Volcanic chimneys pulled up from the seafloor harbor some of the hardiest microbes known.
References:
Schrenk, M.O., et al. 1998. Microbe-mineral associations in intact hydrothermal vent chimneys recovered from the Juan de Fuca Ridge, July 1998. Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. December. San Francisco.
Sources:
M.O. Schrenk
University of Washington
School of Oceanography
P.O. Box 357940
Seattle, WA 98195-7940
From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 1, January 2, 1999, p. 15. Copyright © 1999 by Science Service.
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