Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life
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Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life
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lproven · · focus · HN ↗
These brine pools are tiny salty ponds on the seabed -- David Byrne was on to something: there is water at the bottom of the ocean -- and there tiny salty ponds in Antarctica too, and lakes underneath the glaciers.
Lake Vostok underneath the Antarctic icecap is in the world top 10 by some measures, and it's one of many.
The Black Sea is two layered seas: the top layer filled in very early historical times, if you accept that it's behind the legend of the flood. It's warm and oxygenated and full of life. The older smaller Black Sea is still there underneath it, cold and dark and devoid of oxygen, but still things live in it.