Barely Alive Deep-Sea Microbes (9 of 11) (IMAGE)

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Barely Alive Deep-Sea Microbes (9 of 11)

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Hans Roey opens a sediment core. The mud in the opening of this core is from the last ice age 10,000 years ago. The mud sampled from the Knorr was from the time when dinosaurs walked the earth. (Note: this picture is not from the Knorr cruise.) Photograph by Bo Barker Joergensen. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the May 18, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Hans Roey at the University of Potsdam in Potsdam, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Aerobic Microbial Respiration in 86-Million-Year-Old Deep-Sea Red Clay."

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