Study suggests microbe produces methane from crude oil all by itself

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By mmillikinAug 26, 2019, 5:00 am223 pts
Crude oil and gas naturally escape from the seabed in many places known as seeps. There, these hydrocarbons move up from source rocks through fractures and sediments towards the surface, where they leak out of the ground and sustain a diversity of densely populated habitats in the dark ocean. A large part of…

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