Biogeochemical Stratification and Carbonate Dissolution-Precipitation in Hypersaline Microbial Mats (Salt Pond, San Salvador, The Bahamas)

Aquatic Geochemistry

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 397-418

  Puckett, Mary K ^a   McNeal, Karen S ^a   Kirkland, Brenda L ^a   Corley, Margaret E ^a   Ezell, John E ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bahamas; Carbonates; Electrodes; Microbial Mats; Organic Carbon; Sulfides

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRODE; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; ORGANIC CARBON; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); STRATIFICATION; SULFIDE;

BAHAMAS; SALT POND [SAN SALVADOR]; SAN SALVADOR [BAHAMAS];

EID: 80052268631     PISSN: 13806165     EISSN: 15731421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10498-011-9141-4     Document Type: Article

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