Microbially-accelerated consolidation of oil sands tailings. Pathway II: Solid phase biogeochemistry

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Siddique, Tariq ^a   Kuznetsov, Petr ^a   Kuznetsova, Alsu ^a   Li, Carmen ^a   Young, Rozlyn ^a   Arocena, Joselito M ^b   Foght, Julia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation of clay particles; Consolidation; Methanogenesis; Oil sands tailings

Indexed keywords

FERRIC HYDROXIDE; IRON; PHOSPHATE;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; MATURE FINE TAILING; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84897950993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00107     Document Type: Article

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