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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Mon Mar 23, 2015, 11:58 AM Mar 2015

No limit to life in sediment of ocean's deadest region

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/jpTGWt3VTCc/150316092852.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Scientists have found oxygen and oxygen-breathing microbes all the way through the sediment from the seafloor to the igneous basement at seven sites in the South Pacific gyre, considered the "deadest" location in the ocean.