Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) at the thaw front of subsea permafrost

• Main Authors: Winkel, Matthias, Magritz, Julia, Horn, Fabian, Overduin, Paul, Knoblauch, Christian, Wagner, Dirk
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Laptev Sea; Khaya; Buor-Khaya; laptev; permafrost
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/47639/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.63205144-918a-424f-be34-e6bbd2103862

Introduction: Thawing arctic subsea permafrost is a source of organic carbon in deep sediment layers. The permafrost that is at its thermal equilibrium releases biologically produced methane and a deep sulfate-methane transition zone (SMTZ) is formed due to sulfate-rich overlaying marine sediment la...