Microbes could influence earth’s geological processes as much as volcanoes
Thursday, April 25, 2019 - 08:40
in Earth & Climate
By acting as gatekeepers, microbes can affect geological processes that move carbon from the earth’s surface into its deep interior, according to a study published in Nature and coauthored by microbiologists at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The research is part of the Deep Carbon Observatory’s Biology Meets Subduction project. “We usually think of geology as something […]