On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 22:34:17 +0000, Jonathan Silverlight
<jsilver at merseia.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>Are you the guy who published that study of bacteria surviving in a
>diamond anvil? It was quite widely reported here and the reports were
>saying the pressure was equivalent to many kilometres depth of the
>Earth's crust - or Europan ice. Amazing.
The paper you are referring to is:
Microbial Activity at Gigapascal Pressures
Anurag Sharma, James H. Scott, George D. Cody, Marilyn L. Fogel,
Robert M. Hazen, Russell J. Hemley, and Wesley T. Huntress
Science 295: p. 1514 Feb 22, 2002.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/5559/1514
There is a news article about it on p 1444.
The paper is from Carnegie Inst. in Wash DC.
They say the max P they use corresponds to 50 km of earth crust, or
160 km of water (much more than any known ocean).
(The link given will probably not lead to the article, beyond the
abstract, except for those with subscription.)
bob
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