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"Life in Ancient Ice presents an unparalleled overview of current research into microbial life in ancient glacial ice and permafrost. Particulates of fungi, bacteria, pollen grains, protists, and viruses are carried by wind around the globe. When they fall to Earth in polar regions they may be...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2017] ©2005 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton legacy library
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| Summary: |
"Life in Ancient Ice presents an unparalleled overview of current research into microbial life in ancient glacial ice and permafrost. Particulates of fungi, bacteria, pollen grains, protists, and viruses are carried by wind around the globe. When they fall to Earth in polar regions they may be trapped in ice for hundreds of millennia. Some of the many implications sound like science fiction - for example, might melting glaciers release ancient pathogens that yield modern-day pandemics? But rigorous, coordinated research is nascent. This book points the way forward. Based on a National Science Foundation-sponsored symposium organized by the editors in 2001, it comprises twenty chapters by internationally renowned scientists, including Russian experts whose decades of work has been rarely available in English."--Jacket. |
| Item Description: | Based on a National Science Foundation-sponsored symposium organized by the editors in 2001. |
| Carrier Form: | xviii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps, forms ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691171067 (paperback) : 0691171068 (paperback) 9780691074757 (hardback) 0691074755 (hardback) 9781400880188 (electronic book) 1400880181 (electronic book) |
| Index Number: | QR100 |
| CLC: | Q938.1-532 |
| Call Number: | Q938.1-532/L722/2001 |