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News Release 10-004
Microbe Understudies Await Their Turn in the Ecosystem Limelight
Discovery at deep-sea "Lost City" shows rare microbes can become dominant
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The Lost City chimney Poseidon, shown with a wreckfish, rises 60 meters above the seafloor.
Credit: NSF, NOAA, University of Washington
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Bathymetry of 'Lost City' with a fly-in to the 60-meter-tall undersea Poseidon structure.
Credit: NSF and University of Washington
An underwater spire: the top few feet of an actively venting carbonate chimney at Lost City.
Credit: NSF, NOAA, University of Washington
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