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Cutting-edge Research. Adding to Norway’s geological story & overturning scientific truths. Geobiology - Biogeology. New Norwegian geology Overturning “truths” Plate tectonics and spreading ridges Limits for life Water cycle. Mid-ocean ridges. Chemosynthesis. Water cycle.
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Cutting-edge Research Adding to Norway’s geological story & overturning scientific truths
Geobiology - Biogeology • New Norwegian geology • Overturning “truths” • Plate tectonics and spreading ridges • Limits for life • Water cycle
Centre for Geobiology • Deep Seafloor Geodynamics • Water-Rock-Microbe Interactions & the Deep Biosphere • Vent, Seep and Fall Biota • The Roots of Life • Early Earth and Biosignatures
The first evidence of life? • Barberton South Africa
Active and Ancient Hydrothermal Systems Hydrothermal plume Sulfide deposits Extinct field Active field Mud volcanoes & cold seeps
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elinor.bartle@uib.no • http://www.uib.no/geobio/en