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Seattle PI: Off Washington, a first for US - reef of glass sponge |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 2:59 pm |
| Tags: science stories, environment stories |
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The picture is great and Lisa Stiffler has a good yarn to go with it in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A U of Washington (or you-dub to locals) geologist found a reef dominated by glass sponges recently, about 30 miles off shore and 650 feet down. Until not so long ago, it says here, scientists only knew glass sponge reefs from fossils. Then some received discovery off British Columbia a few decades back. Now the US turns out to have at least one. Some elements of the structure, Stiffler tells readers, resemble hollowed-out, supersized Cheetos. Moves are underway to stiffen anti-trawling rules to be sure the reefs don’t get flattened. -CP [ Full article ] |
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