Surface area measurements of marine basalts: Implications for the subseafloor microbial biomass

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Nielsen, Mark E ^a   Fisk, Martin R ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA;

BULK SAMPLES; CELL DENSITY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; OCEAN CRUST; SUB-SEAFLOOR; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE AREA MEASUREMENT;

BASALT;

BASALT; BIOMASS; COLONIZATION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OCEANIC CRUST; SEAFLOOR; SURFACE AREA;

EID: 77955477195     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044074     Document Type: Article

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