Can Siberian Hot Springs Reveal Ancient Ecology?

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Can Siberian Hot Springs Reveal Ancient Ecology?

 

Albert Colman, assistant professor in geophysical sciences, researches a class of bacteria that consumes the carbon monoxide both produced by other microbes and derived from the volcanic gases bubbling up in the hot springs in eastern Siberia's Kamchatka Peninsula. (Credit: Photo courtesy of Albert Colman)

 

ScienceDaily (Apr. 27, 2011) — Exotic bacteria that do not rely on oxygen may have played an important role in determining the composition of Earth's early atmosphere, according to a theory that UChicago researcher Albert Colman is testing in the scalding hot springs of a volcanic crater in Siberia.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110426164006.htm