Presence of oxygen and aerobic communities from sea floor to basement in deep-sea sediments

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 299-304

  D'hondt, Steven ^a,b   Inagaki, Fumio ^a,c   Zarikian, Carlos Alvarez ^a,d   Abrams, Lewis J ^e   Dubois, Nathalie ^a,f   Engelhardt, Tim ^a,g   Evans, Helen ^a,d   Ferdelman, Timothy ^a,h   Gribsholt, Britta ^a,i   Harris, Robert N ^a,j   Hoppie, Bryce W ^a,k   Hyun, Jung Ho ^a,l   Kallmeyer, Jens ^a,m   Kim, Jinwook ^a,n   Lynch, Jill E ^a,o   Mckinley, Claire C ^d   Mitsunobu, Satoshi ^a,p   Morono, Yuki ^a,c   Murray, Richard W ^a,q   Pockalny, Robert ^b   Sauvage, Justine ^b   Shimono, Takaya ^a,r   Shiraishi, Fumito ^a,s   Smith, David C ^a,b   Smith Duque, Christopher E ^a,t   Spivack, Arthur J ^a,b   Steinsbu, Bjorn Olav ^a,u   Suzuki, Yohey ^a,v   Szpak, Michal ^a,w   Toffin, Laurent ^a,x   Uramoto, Goichiro ^a,c   Yamaguchi, Yasuhiko T ^a,v   Zhang, Guo Liang ^a,y   Zhang, Xiao Hua ^a,z   Ziebis, Wiebke ^a,aa   more..

^a Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^f SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

ⁱ AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^j OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^m GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

ⁿ Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^o UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^p UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^q BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^s HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^t UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^u UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^v UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^w DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^x IFREMER   (France)

^y SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^z OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BASEMENT ROCK; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DEEP SEA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXYGEN; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84926371016     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2387     Document Type: Article

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