The Mass of Microbes in Deep African Mines Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation

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Deep Carbon Observatory
Feb. 26, 2018

Deep Carbon Observatory - Feb. 26, 2018

Thomas Kieft holds up the manifold that that they inserted into the borehole to collect groundwater more than a kilometer deep in the Beatrix gold mine in South Africa. Credit: DCO-supported “Carbon Cycling in the Deep Crustal Biosphere,” University of the Free State, January, 2011