Microbial reductive transformation of phyllosilicate Fe(III) and U(VI) in fluvial subsurface sediments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3721-3730

  Lee, Ji Hoon ^a   Fredrickson, James K ^a   Kukkadapu, Ravi K ^a   Boyanov, Maxim I ^b   Kemner, Kenneth M ^b   Lin, Xueju ^a   Kennedy, David W ^a   Bjornstad, Bruce N ^a   Konopka, Allan E ^a   Moore, Dean A ^a   Resch, Charles T ^a   Phillips, Jerry L ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORBED SPECIES; ANAEROBIC REDUCTION; COLUMBIA RIVER; HANFORD; HANFORD SEDIMENTS; MICROBIAL REDUCTION; PHYLLOSILICATE; PHYLOTYPES; REACTIVE MINERALS; REDUCTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS; SHALLOW AQUIFERS; SSBAUER SPECTROSCOPIES; SUBSURFACE SEDIMENTS; SULFATE REDUCING; SYNTHETIC GROUNDWATER; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; WASHINGTON STATE;

ADSORPTION; AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; IRON COMPOUNDS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; URANIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

ALKENE; GROUND WATER; IRON; ORGANIC CARBON; PHYLLOSILICATE; PYROXENE; RNA 16S; SILICATE; SULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM;

ADSORPTION; AQUIFER; BACTERIUM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOOD DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GROUNDWATER; IRON; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PHYLLOSILICATE; PYROXENE; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; URANIUM;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CLOSTRIDIALES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLOODING; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; REDUCTION; RIVER; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEDIMENT; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ELECTRONS; FLOODS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SILICATES; SPECTROSCOPY, MOSSBAUER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; URANIUM; WASHINGTON;

COLUMBIA RIVER; HANFORD REACH; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

CLOSTRIDIALES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84859299668     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204528m     Document Type: Article

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