A newly discovered 'tectonic pump' in subduction zones may transport ancient, dormant microbes from deep beneath the seafloor back to habitable zones.
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Earth's tectonic elevator hauls ancient buried microbes back to the seafloor to revive and spread
1 Million Gigatons Per Million Years fluid circulated
Up To 10^30 microbial cells transported