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Milankovitch-scale correlations between deeply buried microbial populations and biogenic ooze lithology

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2010

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Aiello, Ivano W, and Bekins, Barbara A, 2010, Milankovitch-scale correlations between deeply buried microbial populations and biogenic ooze lithology: Geology, v. 38, iss. 1, p. 79-82.

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The recent discoveries of large, active populations of microbes in the subseafloor of the world's oceans supports the impact of the deep biosphere biota on global biogeochemical cycles and raises important questions concerning the functioning of these extreme environments for life. These investigations demonstrated that subseafloor microbes are unevenly distributed and that cell abundances and metabolic activities are often independent from sediment depths, with increased prokaryotic activity at geochemical and/or sedimentary interfaces. In this study we demonstrate that microbial populations vary at the scale of individual beds in the biogenic oozes of a drill site in the eastern equatorial Pacific (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 201, [...]

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DOI http://sciencebase.gov/vocab/identifierScheme 10.1130/G30207.1

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