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Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Subject: Iron on its Route to the Sea-Floor: A New Path
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 Iron on its Route to the Sea-Floor: A New
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 [image: Photo of a hydrothermal vent.]

Iron dust, the rarest nutrient for most marine life, can be washed down by
rivers or blown out to sea or--a surprising new study finds--float up from
the sea floor in the material spewed from hydrothermal vents.

The discovery, published online Feb. 8, 2009, in a paper in the journal *Nature
Geoscience*, connects life at the surface to events occurring at extreme
depths and pressures. The two worlds were long assumed to have little
interaction.

A team from the University of ...

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