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Microbial origin of excess methane in glacial ice and implications for life on Mars

H. C. Tung, N. E. Bramall, and P. B. Price
PNAS December 20, 2005 102 (51) 18292-18296; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0507601102
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vol. 102 no. 51 18292-18296
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0507601102
PubMed: 
16339015

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National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue December 20, 2005.
  • Published first December 7, 2005.

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Copyright © 2005, The National Academy of Sciences Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

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  1. H. C. Tung *,
  2. N. E. Bramall †, and
  3. P. B. Price † , ‡
  1. Departments of *Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and †Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
  1. Contributed by P. B. Price, August 31, 2005

Footnotes

  • ↵ ‡ To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bprice{at}berkeley.edu.

  • Author contributions: P.B.P. designed research; H.C.T. performed research; N.E.B. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; P.B.P. analyzed data; and P.B.P. wrote the paper.

  • Abbreviations: GISP2, Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2; GRIP, Greenland Ice Core Project.

  • ↵ § Warren-Rhodes, K. A. & Griffin, D. W., American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Dec. 13–17, 2004, San Francisco (abstr. B33A-0250).

  • Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.

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Microbial origin of excess methane in glacial ice and implications for life on Mars
H. C. Tung, N. E. Bramall, P. B. Price
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2005, 102 (51) 18292-18296; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507601102

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