Microbial and geochemical features suggest iron redox cycling within bacteriogenic iron oxide-rich sediments

Chemical Geology

Volumn 281, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 41-51

  Gault, Andrew G ^a   Ibrahim, Alexandre ^a   Langley, Sean ^a   Renaud, Robert ^b   Takahashi, Yoshio ^c   Boothman, Christopher ^d   Lloyd, Jonathan R ^d   Clark, Ian D ^a   Ferris, F Grant ^e   Fortin, Danielle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA LIMITED   (Canada)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Circumneutral iron oxidation; Fe(II) oxidizing bacteria; Fe(III) reducing bacteria; Redox cycling

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CONTROLS; CLONE LIBRARY; DISSOLUTION-REPRECIPITATION; EQUILIBRIUM CONCENTRATION; EXAFS; FE(II)-OXIDIZING BACTERIA; FE(III)-REDUCING BACTERIA; FERRIHYDRITES; GEOCHEMICAL FEATURES; IRON OXIDATION; IRON REDUCTION; LEPIDOCROCITE; LEPTOTHRIX; MICROBIAL OXIDATION; MINERALOGICAL CHANGES; NANOPARTICULATES; ORGANIC COMPLEX; PORE WATERS; PROTEOBACTERIA; REDOX CYCLES; REDOX CYCLING; REDOX TRANSFORMATIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGE; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT; SHEATH STRUCTURES; SUBSURFACE SEDIMENTS; TIGHTLY-COUPLED;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CLONING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; OXIDATION; RNA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

IRON OXIDES;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; FERRIHYDRITE; IRON OXIDE; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIUM; LEPIDOCROCITE; MICROBIOLOGY; MINERALOGY; OXIDATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; GALLIONELLA; GEOTHRIX FERMENTANS; LEPTOTHRIX; PROKARYOTA; RHODOFERAX FERRIREDUCENS;

EID: 78751566567     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.11.027     Document Type: Article

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