Tracking the Deep Biosphere through Time

• Other Authors: Drake, Henrik (Editor), Ivarsson, Magnus (Editor), Heim, Christine (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Impact structure; fungal hyphae; in situ radiometric dating; secondary minerals; stable isotopes; subsurface; sediment; bacteria; archaea; deep biosphere; clay authigenesis; fossil fungi; igneous crust; cryptoendoliths; subseafloor habitats; fossilized microorganisms; Ophiolite; bacterial calcium-carbonate precipitation (BCP); calcifying bacteria selection; calcifying mixed cultures; ImageJ software; Biolog EcoPlates; sand biocementation; carbon isotopes; diagenetic carbonates; methanogenesis; anaerobic methane oxidation; Wood-Ljungdahl pathway; in situ U-Pb geochronology; Caledonides; deep drilling (COSC-1); geobiology; deep time; geochronology; microorganisms; evolution
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Deep biosphere research is at the scientific frontier of bio- and geo-related sciences, yet it is largely underexplored. In terms of volume, deep subsurface settings represent some of the largest microbial habitats on the planet, and the combined biomass of the deep biosphere encompasses the largest...