HOT SPRINGS MICROBES HOLD KEY TO DATING SEDIMENTARY ROCKS, RESEARCHERS SAY
January 22, 2008
January 22, 2008
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Jan. 22 -- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign issued the following news release:
Scientists studying microbial communities and the growth of sedimentary rock at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park have made a surprising discovery about the geological record of life and the environment.
Their discovery could affect how certain sequences of sedimentary rock are dated, and how scientists might search for evidence of life on oth . . .
Scientists studying microbial communities and the growth of sedimentary rock at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park have made a surprising discovery about the geological record of life and the environment.
Their discovery could affect how certain sequences of sedimentary rock are dated, and how scientists might search for evidence of life on oth . . .