Seafloor deposition of water-based drill cuttings generates distinctive and lengthy sediment bacterial community changes
| Autor: | Bjarne Landfald, Tan Thi Nguyen, John E. Paulsen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
Geologic Sediments Borehole Drill cuttings 010501 environmental sciences Aquatic Science Oceanography 01 natural sciences Deposition (geology) Transect 0105 earth and related environmental sciences VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Microbiota Drilling Sediment Water VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400 equipment and supplies Pollution Seafloor spreading Bioindicator Geology Water Pollutants Chemical Environmental Monitoring |
| Popis: | The spatial extent and persistence of bacterial change caused by deposition of water-based drill cuttings on the seafloor were explored by a community-wide approach. Ten centimeter sediment cores were sampled along transects extending from ≤15 m to 250 m from three nearby drilling sites in the southern Barents Sea. Eight months, 8 years and 15 years, respectively, had passed since the completion of the drillings. At locations heavily affected by drill cuttings, the two most recent sites showed distinct, corresponding deviances from native Barents Sea bacterial community profiles. Otherwise marginal groups, including Mollicutes and Clostridia, showed significant increases in relative abundance. Beyond 100 m from the boreholes the microbiotas appeared undisturbed, as they did at any distance from the 15-years old borehole. The extent of the biological distortion, as indicated by the present microbial study, agreed with previously published macrofaunal surveys at the same drilling sites. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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