Microscope Images of Rock Collected from 122 Meters Beneath Seafloor (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Microscope Images of Rock Collected from 122 Meters Beneath Seafloor

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Aerobic bacteria live densely packed into tunnels of clay minerals found in this sample of solid rock, collected from 122 meters beneath the seafloor. Image B is 1,000 times greater magnification than Image A. The left side photo in each image was taken using normal light and the right side photo was taken using fluorescent light. The solid basalt rock is gray, the clay minerals are orange, and the bacterial cells are green spheres.

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Suzuki et al. 2020, DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0860-1, CC BY 4.0

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