Expanding frontiers in deep subsurface microbiology

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 131-155

  Amend, Jan P ^a   Teske, Andreas ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep continental biosphere; Marine hydrothermal systems; Redox potentials; Subsurface biosphere; Sulfate reducing prokaryotes

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MICROBIOLOGY; REDOX CONDITIONS; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

GUAYMAS BASIN; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; JUAN DE FUCA RIDGE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 15744376275     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.10.018     Document Type: Article

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