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The Global Transport of Dust
Abstract
dirt is carried aloft. Drifting with the sus pended dust particles are soil pollutants such as herbicides and pesticides and a significant number of microorganisms? bacteria, viruses and fungi. We can gain some appreciation of how much micro bial life is actually floating in our atmos phere by perfonning a quick calculation. There are typically about one million bacteria per gram of soil, but lef s be con servative and suppose there are only 10,000 bacteria per gram of airborne sed iment. Assuming a modest one billion metric tons of sediment in the atmos phere, these numbers translate into a quintillion (1018) sediment-borne bacte ria moving around the planet each year?enough to form a microbial bridge between Earth and Jupiter.
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- Authors
- Griffin, D., Kellogg, C., Garrison, V., & Shinn, E.
- Venue
- American Scientist
- Publisher
- Sigma Xi
- Published
- 2002
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 228
- ISSN
- 0003-0996 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2786
- OpenAlex
- W2011152264
- Cited by
- 173
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 8.86
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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