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Are Earth's Oceans Made Of Extraterrestrial Material?
Contrary to preconceived notions, the atmosphere and the oceans were perhaps not formed from vapors emitted during intense volcanism at the dawning of our planet. Scientists now suggest that water was not part of the Earth's initial inventory but stems from the turbulence caused in the outer solar system by giant planets. Ice-covered asteroids thus reached the Earth around one hundred million years after the birth of the planets.
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Gittes,
ReplyDeleteMore article links on your blog.
Thanks.
claudio
Gittes,
ReplyDeleteI visited your blog linked articles between client meetings today.
I needed the lift.
I was drawn to the article entitled,
“A biology whodunnit: are rodents helping protect trees from fire?”
which contains the passage,
“We believe that rodents open up Manzanita's cherry-like fruit and bury the seeds found inside, similar to a squirrel hiding its nuts to eat later," said Parker, an expert on Manzanita, a group of evergreen trees and shrubs. "What's critical is that they bury the seeds at a depth that the seeds can survive the heat if a fire breaks out."
As a life-long “rodent hater”, I found this article disturbing. At my age it is not pleasant to discover that my prejudices are not based on fact.
As well, the article “Consumption of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi by terrestrial and arboreal small mammals…” reinforces the role of mice in the dispersal of critically important mycorrhizal fungi spores.
The mycorrhizal fungi, of course, is of vital importance to plant health and nutrition. The soil is inoculated and reinoculated with mycorrhizal fungi spores by mice (among other rodents).
Does this mean that mice (and other rodents) should be allowed to live?
Rodents have a “purpose” after all?
claudio