Sentences with phrase «not seafloor sediment»

The rock is an extrusion from a hydrothermal vent, not seafloor sediment.

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In fact, the cells show so few signs of life that it wasn't until 2011 that researchers confirmed that microbes in sediments below the seafloor are, indeed, living.

Previous evidence from seafloor sediments elsewhere is consistent with two Paleocene - Eocene carbon pulses, which «means we don't think this is something is unique to northern Wyoming,» Bowen says.

Ettema's team did not actually see the cells: they used computational methods to piece together the genomes from the DNA found in the seafloor sediment.

Not only is there a much higher diversity of microbes under the seafloor than originally thought, large and active populations exist much deeper in the sediments than was believed, the team reports 21 July in Nature.