Deep marine biosphere fuelled by increasing organic matter availability during burial and heating

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6642, 1997, Pages 573-576

  Wellsbury, Peter ^a   Goodman, Kim ^a   Barth, Tanja ^b   Cragg, Barry A ^a   Barnes, Stephen P ^a   Parkes, R John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC MATTER;

ACETATE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BURIAL; DEEP SEA; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS; MARINE SEDIMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOSPHERE; DIVING; HEATING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT;

EID: 0030744644     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/41544     Document Type: Article

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