Microorganisms in the Accreted Ice of Lake Vostok, Antarctica
Analysis of a portion of Vostok ice core number 5G, which is thought to contain frozen water derived from Lake Vostok, Antarctica (a body of liquid water located beneath about 4 kilometers of glacial ice), revealed between 2 × 10 2 and 3 × 10 2 bacterial cells per milliliter and low concentrations o...
Published in: | Science |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1999
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.286.5447.2144 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.286.5447.2144 |