Interaction between hydrocarbon seepage, chemosynthetic communities, and bottom water redox at cold seeps of the Makran accretionary prism: Insights from habitat-specific pore water sampling and modeling

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2013-2031

  Fischer, D ^a   Sahling, H ^a   Nothen K ^b   Bohrmann, G ^a   Zabel, M ^a   Kasten, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BOTTOM WATER; COLD SEEP; COLONIZATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FLUID FLOW; HABITAT TYPE; HYDROCARBON SEEP; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; POREWATER; REDOX POTENTIAL; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SULFATE;

MAKRAN;

AMPHARETIDAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; POLYCHAETA; VESICOMYIDAE;

EID: 84861949208     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-2013-2012     Document Type: Article

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