Microbes go rafting on floating volcanic rocks
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 06:00
in Earth & Climate
Volcanoes bring death and destruction, but out of the ashes life soon finds fertile ground. A unique experiment is sifting through floating debris from an ongoing volcanic event to see how microbes move in. The results may help in assessing a recent hypothesis that the first life forms may have found fertile ground in the pores of volcanic rocks.