{"id":12171,"date":"2017-11-21T10:12:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=12171"},"modified":"2017-12-18T10:14:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T18:14:25","slug":"microbial-hot-spring-structures-offer-clues-into-geological-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/press\/microbial-hot-spring-structures-offer-clues-into-geological-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbial hot spring structures offer clues into geological past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Featuring C-DEBI researchers John Spear and James Bradley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Orange, tree-like cone structures up to two centimeters tall found in a California hot spring were built by a rich and diverse community of microbes, newly published research shows.<\/p>\n<p>These microbes, living in a California hot spring aptly named \u201cCone Pool\u201d by researchers in the Long Valley Caldera, just east of Mammoth Mountain in California, built sturdy Christmas tree-like structures using calcium carbonate\u2014the same mineral used by corals to form their skeletons.<\/p>\n<p>John Spear, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado School of Mines, was part of the international team of researchers working on the project.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41522-017-0041-2\">Their findings were published Nov. 21<\/a>\u00a0in the journal npj Biofilms and Microbiomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring C-DEBI researchers John Spear and James Bradley. Orange, tree-like cone structures up to two centimeters tall found in a California hot spring were built by a rich and diverse community of microbes, newly published research shows. These microbes, living in a California hot spring aptly named \u201cCone Pool\u201d by researchers in the Long Valley&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[],"organization":[402],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12172,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12171\/revisions\/12172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12171"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=12171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}