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Pastimes : R. Harmon's Earth 101
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To: long-gone who wrote (132)4/14/2000 11:42:00 PM
From: Lilian Debray   of 183
 
Re: tornadoes. It is probably better to invest in lumber than in insurance.

UMass Researchers Find Key To Spurring Methane Conversion
In the summer of 1999, Lovley and Anderson examined the site of a contaminated aquifer where crude oil had spilled, 30 feet below the surface of the earth near Bemidji, Minnesota. With the help of a $325,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Life in Extreme Environments Program, the two were studying anaerobic metabolic processes of microbes living in and around the oil spill. The contamination had changed the composition of the microbial community from what was normally found in the Minnesota soil to something similar to what would be found near oil reservoirs. Unlike soil found much deeper in the earth, however, there was no sulfate in this soil. Until Lovley and Anderson's study, sulfate was thought to be a necessary ingredient in the process microbes use to break down oil.
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