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NOVA
Mysterious Life of Caves
TV-PG
S30 • E2 Sep 30, 2002 55m6.8
Two scientists studying the legendary Carlsbad Caverns come to question the conventional wisdom of how the massive caves system formed. They propose a new theory that extremophile bacteria producing hydrogen sulfide, a precursor to sulfuric acid, are the main cause of the caves formation rather than geological processes.