Deep in the crust forms of life may be widespread

The new estimates actually make energy from hydrogen dissolved in the rock as well as deep-sea hydrothermal vents doubled.

Sherwood Lollar said, “It makes life possible in the presence of the planet where the concept of a tremendous change,” because more than 70% of the rock formation of the continent can be traced back to the Precambrian period.

As early as 2006, scientists discovered the hydrogen will be for food, living microbes in the rock below the surface of the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa at 4000 meters.

However, other locations Sherwood Lollar’s research team found, including those of Finland and Canada sites – they recently identified the ancient water over 1 billion years old – have a higher hydrogen levels, which means that micro-organisms, There may be more livable environment.

“This is so fascinating it.” Conn. Yale University in New Haven Earth microbiologist Sean McMahon said, “Most of the drilling has not been microbiological studies – they should be related to the work.”

This discovery could help scientists better understand the early life on Earth. Natural History Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark geochemist Emily Catherine Pope said that a debate focused on the formation of hydrothermal vents in the ocean of what life is spread and diversified.

Pope stressed: “If you define a ubiquitous energy source, it will no longer be a limiting factor in the spread of life.”

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