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Earth's tectonic elevator hauls ancient buried microbes back to the seafloor to revive and spread

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Earth's tectonic elevator hauls ancient buried microbes back to the seafloor to revive and spread
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In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports long-buried subseafloor microbes back toward the seafloor, according to research presented at the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting.

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