A brief review of microbial geochemistry in the shallow-sea hydrothermal system of Vulcano Island (Italy)

FOG - Freiberg Online Geoscience

Volumn 22, Issue , 2009, Pages 61-67

  Amend, Jan P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; HYDROTHERMAL VENT COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; REDOX CONDITIONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VULCANO;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTIVORA;

EID: 68149123649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14347512     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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