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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- There is a biotic aspect to abiotic oil, and that is the principle of
deep earth bacterial activity which explains why oil picks up
traces of organic or biotic activity before it reaches the surface.
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http://www.discover.com/issues/mar-04/cover/
20,000 Microbes Under the SeaScientists have discovered that nearly a third of all the life on this planet consists of microbes living under the seafloor in a dark world without oxygen. Many of these tiny creatures make so much methane gas that if even a small proportion of it is released, we might be overwhelmed by huge tsunamis, runaway global warming, and extinctionsDISCOVER Vol. 25 No. 03 | March 2004 | Environment  Â
The thing about the mud hoisted from the bottom of the Black Sea in the summer of 2001âthe thing that surprised and delighted the researchers aboard the Professor Logachevâwas that there was hardly any mud at all. They were 75 miles west of the Crimean city of Sevastopol, 750 feet above an undersea slope along which sediment from the Dnieper River cascades down into the depths. With a set of giant steel claws guided by a video camera, they had taken a one-ton bite out of that slope and dumped the goopy mess on deck. It stank. That didnât surprise anyoneâseafloor mud often contains hydrogen sulfide, which smells like rotten eggs. But they were struck by what else was in the sample: âNearly one ton of biological material,â says Walter Michaelis, a biogeochemist at the University of Hamburg in Germany, who led the expedition. âNo sediment. No carbonates. It was a cubic meter of bacteria!âA few days later, Hamburg geologist Richard Seifert got a look at the seafloor where the bacteria came from. Diving in a little German submarine called Jago, peering through an acrylic porthole several inches thick, he saw a fog of floating particles. Then, looming out of the dark and into the subâs tight halo of floodlight, through curtains of rising bubbles that made it seem as if the sub were driving through champagne, Seifert saw chimneysâblack, knobby spires, the tallest rising more than 13 feet off the seafloor. Chimneys made by erupting volcanic minerals are common at hot springs in mid-ocean ridges. But this was not a hot spring, and these chimneys were not built of volcanic rock. The pilot prodded one with Jagoâs hydraulic arm. It was soft, like flesh. He knocked one over, felling it as if it were a tree to reveal its cross section. Under a black outer layer there was a thick layer of pink and a core that was harder and greenish gray.
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