For the first time, there is an insight into how energy is stored deep in the earth’s subsurface.
‘s gold and uranium Moab Khotsong mine in South Africa hosts 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater, a finding that sheds new light on how life is sustained below the earth’s surface and how it may thrive on other planets., the researchers explain that, for the first time, there is an insight into how energy stored deep in the earth’s subsurface can be released and distributed more broadly through its crust over time.
Sherwood Lollar explained that uranium and other radioactive elements naturally occur in the surrounding host rock that contains mineral and ore deposits. These elements hold new information about the groundwater’s role as a power generator for chemolithotrophic groups of cohabitating microorganisms previously discovered in the earth’s deep subsurface.
Due to their extremely small masses, helium and neon are uniquely valuable for identifying and quantifying transport potential. While the extremely low porosity of crystalline basement rocks in which these waters are found means the groundwaters themselves are largely isolated and rarely mix, accounting for their 1.2-billion-year age, diffusion can still take place.
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