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Message in a stainless steel bottle thrown into deep geological time

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Lewandowski, M.
Kusiak, M.
Michalczyk
Szmigiel, D.
Sledziewska-Gojska, E.
Barzycka, B.
Wawrzyniak, T.
Luks, B.
Thordarson, T.
Wilde, Simon
Hoskuldsson, A.
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2017
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Journal Article

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Lewandowski, M. and Kusiak, M. and Michalczyk and Szmigiel, D. and Sledziewska-Gojska, E. and Barzycka, B. and Wawrzyniak, T. et al. 2017. Message in a stainless steel bottle thrown into deep geological time. Gondwana Research. 52: pp. 139-141.
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© 2017 The Authors In the 60th year after the placing of the corner stone under the Polish Polar Station at Hornsund (PPSH; Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway), a new capsule has been laid down in the vicinity of the PPSH. It is made of stainless steel, and includes five stainless steel containers, each carrying a message on different themes in our lives. The message is written in the language of objects, each of them speaking for itself. The capsule with containers has been buried in a 4.2 m deep hole, drilled for scientific purposes. The host rocks for the capsule are the Precambrian gneisses, representing the basement of the polar archipelago. We estimate that the capsule, now some 6 m a.s.l., will appear again on the surface after ca . 0.5 Ma, due to the combined effect of uplift and erosion. We also believe that it will be found, and the message understood, contrary to other messages sent by mankind into space.