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.

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