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The Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone: CO2-Consuming Bacteria Discovery + (Bio)Geochemical Processes within Polymetallic Seafloor Sediments

Deep sea mining zone hosts CO2-consuming bacteria, scientists discover  (News, Heriot-Watt University; 20 November 2018)

https://www.hw.ac.uk/about/news/2018/deep-sea-mining-zone-hosts-co2-consuming.htm

Featured Research Article:

Key role of bacteria in the short-term cycling of carbon at the abyssal seafloor in a low particulate organic carbon flux region of the eastern Pacific Ocean  (SWEETMAN et al., 2018)

https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/lno.11069

Other Selected Research Articles:

Natural spatial variability of depositional conditions, biogeochemical processes and element fluxes in sediments of the eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone, Pacific Ocean  (VOLZ et al., 2018)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063717303965/pdfft?md5=84a610427c3baa3c9c6d2cd884a18c27&pid=1-s2.0-S0967063717303965-main.pdf&isDTMRedir=true&download=true

  • Appendix A:  Supplementary Material (VOLZ et al., 2018)

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0967063717303965-mmc1.docx

Threatened by mining, polymetallic nodules are required to preserve abyssal epifauna  (VANREUSEL et al., 2016)

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep26808.pdf

  • Supplemental Information (VANREUSEL et al., 2016)

https://media.nature.com/original/nature-assets/srep/2016/160601/srep26808/extref/srep26808-s1.doc

Quantifying manganese and nitrogen cycle coupling in manganese-rich, organic carbon-starved marine sediments:  Examples from the Clarion-Clipperton fracture zone  (MOGOLLÓN et al., 2016)

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2016GL069117

Geochemical and biological recovery of the disturbed seafloor in polymetallic nodule fields of the Clipperton-Clarion Fracture Zone (CCFZ) at 5,000-m depth  (KHRIPOUNOFF et al., 2006)

https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4319/lo.2006.51.5.2033

Map: 

Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone Exploration Areas for Polymetallic Nodules  (International Seabed Authority, October 2018)N. B.:  Map retrieved from the International Seabed Authority Website

Website:

International Seabed Authority                                                                        https://www.isa.org.jm/maps

 

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