Nature Communications (Apr 2021)
Organic matter mineralization in modern and ancient ferruginous sediments
- André Friese,
- Kohen Bauer,
- Clemens Glombitza,
- Luis Ordoñez,
- Daniel Ariztegui,
- Verena B. Heuer,
- Aurèle Vuillemin,
- Cynthia Henny,
- Sulung Nomosatryo,
- Rachel Simister,
- Dirk Wagner,
- Satria Bijaksana,
- Hendrik Vogel,
- Martin Melles,
- James M. Russell,
- Sean A. Crowe,
- Jens Kallmeyer
Affiliations
- André Friese
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
- Kohen Bauer
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia
- Clemens Glombitza
- ETH Zürich, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics
- Luis Ordoñez
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva
- Daniel Ariztegui
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva
- Verena B. Heuer
- MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
- Aurèle Vuillemin
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
- Cynthia Henny
- Research Center for Limnology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Cibinong
- Sulung Nomosatryo
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
- Rachel Simister
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia
- Dirk Wagner
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
- Satria Bijaksana
- Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung
- Hendrik Vogel
- Institute of Geological Sciences & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern
- Martin Melles
- Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne
- James M. Russell
- Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University
- Sean A. Crowe
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia
- Jens Kallmeyer
- GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22453-0
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
The conditions that shaped Earth’s evolution during the Archaean and Proterozoic Eons remain unknown. Using Lake Towuti in Indonesia as an analog of early oceans the authors find that microbial methanogenesis exerts a strong influence with important implications for the composition of Earth’s early atmosphere.
