 New anaerobic, heat tolerant microbiota found at 3000 meters below the surface, cooperatively with Texaco Oil Company. Drilling rig shown. |
 Thin-section electron micrograph of Bacillus infernus, sp. nov., isolated from ca. 2.7 km below land surface in the Taylorsville Basin. These new species proposed by D. R. Boone et al. (1995) are thermophilic, halotolerant, and Fe(III)- and Mn(IV)-reducing anaerobes. |
