Oxygen consumption rates in subseafloor basaltic crust derived from a reaction transport model

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Orcutt, Beth N ^a,b   Wheat, C Geoffrey ^c   Rouxel, Olivier ^d   Hulme, Samuel ^e   Edwards, Katrina J ^f   Bach, Wolfgang ^g  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d IFREMER   (France)

^e MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; STRONTIUM; WATER;

BASALT; BIOMASS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEAFLOOR;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GEOLOGY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEA; SEDIMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMASS; DIFFUSION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXYGEN; SILICATES; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES;

EID: 84885159746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3539     Document Type: Article

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