For the deep biosphere, the present is not always the key to the past: what we can learn from the geological record

Constraining silica diagenesis in methane-seep deposits

(2015) D. Smrzka et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Using stable Mg isotopes to distinguish dolomite formation mechanisms: A case study from the Peru Margin

(2014) Vasileios Mavromatis et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Early diagenetic quartz formation at a deep iron oxidation front in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific – A modern analogue for banded iron/chert formations?

(2014) Patrick Meister et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Sulphate-controlled Diversity of Subterranean Microbial Communities over Depth in Deep Groundwater with Opposing Gradients of Sulphate and Methane

(2014) Karsten Pedersen et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Cold-seep-driven carbonate deposits at the Central American forearc: contrasting evolution and timing in escarpment and mound settings

(2014) V. Liebetrau et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

A review of prokaryotic populations and processes in sub-seafloor sediments, including biosphere:geosphere interactions

(2014) R. John Parkes et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Global rates of marine sulfate reduction and implications for sub-sea-floor metabolic activities

(2014) M. W. Bowles et al.   SCIENCE

Rare earth element geochemistry in cold-seep pore waters of Hydrate Ridge, northeast Pacific Ocean

(2013) Tobias Himmler et al.   GEO-MARINE LETTERS

The evolution of early diagenetic signals in Bering Sea subseafloor sediments in response to varying organic carbon deposition over the last 4.3Ma

(2013) Laura M. Wehrmann et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Cyclic 100-ka (glacial-interglacial) migration of subseafloor redox zonation on the Peruvian shelf

(2013) S. Contreras et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nanoscale analysis of pyritized microfossils reveals differential heterotrophic consumption in the  1.9-Ga Gunflint chert

(2013) D. Wacey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Turnover of microbial lipids in the deep biosphere and growth of benthic archaeal populations

(2013) S. Xie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxygen consumption rates in subseafloor basaltic crust derived from a reaction transport model

(2013) Beth N. Orcutt et al.   Nature Communications

The Deep, Dark Energy Biosphere: Intraterrestrial Life on Earth

(2012) Katrina J. Edwards et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Gas hydrate decomposition recorded by authigenic barite at pockmark sites of the northern Congo Fan

(2012) Sabine Kasten et al.   GEO-MARINE LETTERS

Metabolic activity of subterranean microbial communities in deep granitic groundwater supplemented with methane and H2

(2012) Karsten Pedersen   ISME Journal

Origin of Siderite Concretions In Microenvironments of Methanogenesis Developed In A Sulfate Reduction Zone: An Exception Or A Rule?

(2012) M. J. Bojanowski et al.   JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH

Endospore abundance, microbial growth and necromass turnover in deep sub-seafloor sediment

(2012) Bente Aa. Lomstein et al.   NATURE

Global distribution of microbial abundance and biomass in subseafloor sediment

(2012) J. Kallmeyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Carbonate veins trace seawater circulation during exhumation and uplift of mantle rock: Results from ODP Leg 209

(2011) Wolfgang Bach et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Constraining pathways of microbial mediation for carbonate concretions of the Miocene Monterey Formation using carbonate-associated sulfate

(2011) Sean J. Loyd et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Magnesium isotope fractionation during hydrous magnesium carbonate precipitation with and without cyanobacteria

(2011) Vasileios Mavromatis et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Dolomite formation within the methanogenic zone induced by tectonically driven fluids in the Peru accretionary prism

(2011) P. Meister et al.   GEOLOGY

Prokaryotes stimulate mineral H2 formation for the deep biosphere and subsequent thermogenic activity

(2011) R. John Parkes et al.   GEOLOGY

Miocene methane-derived carbonates from southwestern Washington, USA and a model for silicification at seeps

(2011) RONY R. KUECHLER et al.   LETHAIA

Archaeal lipids in Neogene dolomites (Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, California) – Planktic versus benthic archaeal sources

(2011) Lars Hoffmann-Sell et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Unique authigenic mineral assemblages reveal different diagenetic histories in two neighbouring cold-water coral mounds on Pen Duick Escarpment, Gulf of Cadiz

(2011) HANS PIRLET et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Cretaceous black shale: a window into microbial life adaptation

(2011) Muriel Pacton et al.   TERRA NOVA

Tracing sources and cycling of phosphorus in Peru Margin sediments using oxygen isotopes in authigenic and detrital phosphates

(2010) Deb P. Jaisi et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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

(2010) Ivano W. Aiello et al.   GEOLOGY

Role of sulfate reduction and methane production by organic carbon degradation in eutrophic fjord sediments (Limfjorden, Denmark)

(2010) Bo Barker JØrgensen et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Evolution of organic matter degradation in Cretaceous black shales inferred from authigenic barite: A reaction-transport model

(2009) Sandra Arndt et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Genesis of phosphorite crusts off Peru

(2009) E.T. Arning et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Thermodynamics of Solid Solution-Aqueous Solution Systems

(2009) M. Prieto   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Depth and controls of Ca-rhodochrosite precipitation in bioturbated sediments of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, ODP Leg 201, Site 1226 and DSDP Leg 68, Site 503

(2009) PATRICK MEISTER et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats

(2008) Christophe Dupraz et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Isotopic signatures of CH4 and higher hydrocarbon gases from Precambrian Shield sites: A model for abiogenic polymerization of hydrocarbons

(2008) B. Sherwood Lollar et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Sealevel changes control diagenetic dolomite formation in hemipelagic sediments of the Peru Margin

(2008) Patrick Meister et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Diagenetic changes of magnetic and geochemical signals by anaerobic methane oxidation in sediments of the Zambezi deep-sea fan (SW Indian Ocean)

(2008) C. März et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Extending the Sub-Sea-Floor Biosphere

(2008) E. G. Roussel et al.   SCIENCE