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News Release 15-019
No limit to life in deep sediment of ocean's "deadest" region
Marine scientists find microbes from seafloor to igneous basement below
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Scientists have found that rocks beneath the seafloor are teeming with microbial life.
Credit: Nicolle Rager-Fuller/NSF
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The drillship JOIDES Resolution, used to take samples of life far beneath the seafloor.
Credit: IODP/USIO Jennifer Magnusson
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A recovery tool for seafloor equipment rises through the ship's moonpool.
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A sediment core with sterile syringes inserted to take microbiology and chemistry samples.
Credit: Fumio Inagaki, JAMSTEC
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A core analyzed for its dissolved oxygen; instruments to measure oxygen are inserted into the core.
Credit: Fumio Inagaki, JAMSTEC
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Photomicrograph of a microbe separated out from deep subseafloor sediment.
Credit: Fumio Inagaki, JAMSTEC
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