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September 03, 2015

Evidence of ancient life discovered in mantle rocks deep below the seafloor
Cape Cod MA (SPX) Sep 03, 2015
Ancient rocks harbored microbial life deep below the seafloor, reports a team of scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Virginia Tech, and the University of Bremen. This new evidence was contained in drilled rock samples of Earth's mantle - thrust by tectonic forces to the seafloor during the Early Cretaceous period. The new study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The discovery confirms a long-standing hypothesis that interactions betwe ... read more

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