Evidence for Microbial Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Deeply Buried Ridge Flank Basalt
Sediment-covered basalt on the flanks of mid-ocean ridges constitutes most of Earth's oceanic crust, but the composition and metabolic function of its microbial ecosystem are largely unknown. By drilling into 3.5-million-year-old subseafloor basalt, we demonstrated the presence of methane- and...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87684 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1348-9584 |