Photomicrograph Mosaic (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Photomicrograph Mosaic

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Detailed examination of rocks nestled thousands of feet beneath the ocean floor revealed life in plutonic rocks of the lower oceanic crust. Shown here is a thin section photomicrograph mosaic of one of the samples.

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(Photo by Frieder Klein, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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