Evidence for Microbial Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Deeply Buried Ridge Flank Basalt

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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Main Authors: Lever, Mark A., Rouxel, Olivier, Alt, Jeffrey C., Shimizu, Nobumichi, Ono, Shuhei, Coggon, Rosalind M., Shanks III, Wayne C., Lapham, Laura, Elvert, Marcus, Prieto-Mollar, Xavier, Hinrichs, Kai-Uwe, Inagaki, Fumio, Teske, Andreas
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87684
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1348-9584

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