Influence of petroleum deposit geometry on local gradient of electron acceptors and microbial catabolic potential

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5782-5788

  Singh, Gargi ^a   Pruden, Amy ^a   Widdowson, Mark A ^a  

^a Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; ANAEROBIC ZONE; ATTENUATION MODEL; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BIODEGRADATION RATE; CATABOLIC PROCESS; DEEPWATER; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESES (DGGE); DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; FIELD SURVEYS; GENETIC MARKERS; KEY FACTORS; LABORATORY STUDIES; LOCAL GRADIENTS; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; OIL DEPOSITS; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAND COLUMNS; SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS; SULFATE REDUCTION; TAR BALLS; TERMINAL ELECTRON ACCEPTORS; TIDAL CYCLE;

BIODEGRADATION; ELECTRONS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; OXYGENATION; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TAR;

GEOMETRY;

AROMATIC COMPOUND; CATECHOL; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; OIL; PETROLEUM; SULFATE;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; CLEANUP; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FIELD SURVEY; GENETIC MARKER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OIL SPILL; PETROLEUM; TIDAL CYCLE;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CATABOLISM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTRON; GEOMETRY; LABORATORY TEST; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXYGENATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DATA COLLECTION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTRONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OILS; OXYGEN; PETROLEUM; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFATES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84861894078     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es300393r     Document Type: Article

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