Ecology and evolution of seafloor and subseafloor microbial communities

WD Orsi - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Vast regions of the dark ocean have ultra-slow rates of organic matter sedimentation, and
their sediments are oxygenated to great depths yet have low levels of organic matter and …

[HTML][HTML] Borehole logging and seismic data from Lake Ohrid (North Macedonia/Albania) as a basis for age-depth modelling over the last one million years

A Ulfers, C Zeeden, B Wagner, S Krastel… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Robust age-depth models are essential for developing sophisticated interpretations of the
sedimentological history in lake basins. In most cases, such models are created using an …

Identification and removal of contaminant sequences from ribosomal gene databases: lessons from the census of deep life

CS Sheik, BK Reese, KI Twing, JB Sylvan… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Earth's subsurface environment is one of the largest, yet least studied, biomes on Earth, and
many questions remain regarding what microorganisms are indigenous to the subsurface …

Accessing the subsurface biosphere within rocks undergoing active low‐temperature serpentinization in the Samail ophiolite (Oman Drilling Project)

AS Templeton, ET Ellison, C Glombitza… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Oman Drilling Project established an “Active Alteration” multi‐borehole
observatory in peridotites undergoing low‐temperature serpentinization in the Samail …

Organic matter mineralization in modern and ancient ferruginous sediments

A Friese, K Bauer, C Glombitza, L Ordoñez… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Deposition of ferruginous sediment was widespread during the Archaean and Proterozoic
Eons, playing an important role in global biogeochemical cycling. Knowledge of organic …

Basalt-hosted microbial communities in the subsurface of the young volcanic island of Surtsey, Iceland

P Bergsten, P Vannier, AM Klonowski… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The island of Surtsey was formed in 1963–1967 on the offshore Icelandic volcanic rift zone.
It offers a unique opportunity to study the subsurface biosphere in newly formed oceanic …

Deep weathering in the semi-arid Coastal Cordillera, Chile

LV Krone, FJ Hampl, C Schwerdhelm, C Bryce… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The weathering front is the boundary beneath Earth's surface where pristine rock is
converted into weathered rock. It is the base of the “critical zone”, in which the lithosphere …

Vivianite formation in ferruginous sediments from Lake Towuti, Indonesia

A Vuillemin, A Friese, R Wirth, JA Schuessler… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Ferruginous lacustrine systems, such as Lake Towuti, Indonesia, are characterized by a
specific type of phosphorus cycling in which hydrous ferric iron (oxyhydr) oxides trap and …

Clay‐associated microbial communities and their relevance for a nuclear waste repository in the Opalinus Clay rock formation

J Mitzscherling, S Genderjahn, AM Schleicher… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microorganisms are known to be natural agents of biocorrosion and mineral transformation,
thereby potentially affecting the safety of deep geological repositories used for high‐level …

Wash-free multiplexed mix-and-read suspension array fluorescence immunoassay for anthropogenic markers in wastewater

P Carl, D Sarma, BJR Gregório, K Hoffmann… - Analytical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Pharmaceuticals, certain food ingredients, and mammalian endogenous metabolic products
in wastewater are mostly of human origin. They are anthropogenic markers. Proper …