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Rusty-orange iron oxide coats seafloor rock.

Rusty-orange iron oxide coats seafloor rock.
Rusty-orange iron oxide coats seafloor rock.
Rusty-orange iron oxide coats seafloor rock.
Rusty-orange iron oxide coats seafloor rock.
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Edwards, Katrina
Rusty-orange iron oxide coats seafloor rock.
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01/01/2003
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 42, No. 2, Pg. 87:
TRANSFORMING ROCK—Rusty-orange iron oxide coats the left side of this sample of seafloor rock, where microbes have oxidized iron in the rock. They harness the chemical energy from this reaction to live and grow. The microbes did not progress to the right side of the rock, which remains its normal gray color.
Photo by Katrina Edwards, WHOI
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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