Microbially mediated methane and sulfur cycling in pockmark sediments of the Gdansk Basin, Baltic Sea

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 439-448

  Pimenov, Nikolay V ^a   Ulyanova, Marina O ^b   Kanapatsky, Timur A ^a   Veslopolova, Elena F ^a   Sigalevich, Pavel A ^a   Sivkov, Vadim V ^b  

^a WINOGRADSKY INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC OXIDATION OF METHANES; BALTIC SEA; BIOGENIC ORIGINS; GEOACOUSTICS; HIGH ORGANIC; HIGH RATE; METHANE CONCENTRATIONS; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL PROCESS; REDUCED SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENT DEPTH; SEDIMENT LAYERS; SULFATE REDUCTION;

METHANATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

METHANE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOMORPHOLOGY; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC MATTER; POCKMARK; SULFATE; SULFUR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GDANSK BASIN;

EID: 77952958050     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-010-0200-4     Document Type: Article

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