Microbial abundance in the deep subsurface of the Chesapeake Bay impact crater: Relationship to lithology and impact processes

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 458, Issue , 2009, Pages 941-950

  Cockell, Charles S ^a   Gronstal, Aaron L ^a   Voytek, Mary A ^b   Kirshtein, Julie D ^b   Finster, Kai ^c   Sanford, Ward E ^b   Glamoclija, Mihaela ^d   Gohn, Gregory S ^b   Powars, David S ^b   Horton, J Wright ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSPHERICS; COMETS; LITHOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; CHESAPEAKE BAY IMPACT STRUCTURES; IMPACT CRATERS; IMPACT EVENTS; IMPACT PROCESS; IMPACTORS; MICROBIAL ABUNDANCES; POST IMPACTS; SUBSURFACE BIOSPHERE; SURFACE ECOSYSTEMS;

SEDIMENTS;

ABUNDANCE; ASTEROID; BIOSPHERE; COMET; CRATER; EOCENE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LITHOLOGY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIOCENE; SCHIST; SUEVITE;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 74949085356     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2458(40)     Document Type: Article

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