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The Black Sea is rich on hydrogen sulfide. Googling on cable bacteria and Black Sea showed this: Cable bacteria can limit sulfide release by promoting iron oxi
by pgtan 6y ago
The Black Sea is rich on hydrogen sulfide. Googling on cable bacteria and Black Sea showed this:
Cable bacteria can limit sulfide release by promoting iron oxide formation in sediments.[1]
[...] we used laboratory incubations to assess whether cable bacteria can establish in iron (Fe) monosulphide-poor coastal Black Sea sediment and to determine the impact of their activity on the cycling of Fe, phosphorus (P) and sulphur (S). [...] we show that the enrichments in Fe oxides induced by cable bacteria are located in a thin subsurface layer of 0.3 mm. We show that similar subsurface layers enriched in Fe and P are also observed at field sites where cable bacteria were recently active and little bioturbation occurs.[2]
[1] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b01665# https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b01665#
[2] https://bg.copernicus.org/preprints/bg-2020-292/ https://bg.copernicus.org/preprints/bg-2020-292/