Badwater Basin, lowest elevation in the Western Hemisphere, at Death Valley National Park.
Credit: Dennis Bazylinski and Christopher Lefèvre
Greigite-containing magnetotactic bacterium from Badwater Basin, Death Valley.
Credit: Dennis Bazylinski and Christopher Lefèvre
1 posted on
12/27/2011 5:07:38 PM PST by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv; neverdem; DvdMom; grey_whiskers; Ladysmith; Roos_Girl; Silentgypsy; conservative cat; ...
2 posted on
12/27/2011 5:09:00 PM PST by
decimon
To: decimon
Nevada, the "Silver State," is well-known for mining precious metals.That's true.
And Badwater Basin is one of my favorite places.
But -- cough, cough -- Badwater is in California...
3 posted on
12/27/2011 5:36:57 PM PST by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: decimon
[singing] Get in your badwater basin and thrive...
10 posted on
12/27/2011 6:22:25 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Merry Christmas, Happy New Year! May 2013 be even Happier!)
To: decimon
EPA’s gonna protect that bacteria, just you wait.
To: decimon
According to Bazylinski, the greigite-producing bacteria represent a new, previously unrecognized group of sulfate-reducing bacteria that "breathe" the compound sulfate rather than oxygen as most living organisms do. And what do they put out as a by product of "respiration"?
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