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Jul 22, 2008
Deep Biosphere Bactera Debunked - It's Mostly Archaea, Says Study
Biogeoscientists show evidence of 90 billion tons of microbial organisms—expressed in terms of carbon mass—living in the deep biosphere, in a research article published online by Nature. This tonnage corresponds to about one-tenth of the amount of carbon stored globally in tropical rainforests.
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