Factoid/2012/01/16
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'Marine Snow' Supports Organisms on the Sea Floor
- "Deep-sea organisms are reliant upon a trickle of falling material from the productive shallow oceans overhead. This material is largely a low quality and low quantity mixture of decaying bodies and feces degraded further by bacteria on its decent into the deep." - excerpt from article at io9.com.
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