Hydrothermal sediment geochemistry south of the Antarctic Polar Front

• Main Author: Hepburn, Laura
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Austral; Scotia Sea; East Scotia Ridge; Bare Rock; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/384574/; https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/384574/1/Hepburn%252C%2520Laura_PhD_Nov_15.pdf

This thesis uses a novel, combined mineralogical, geochemical (including stable S isotopes), and microbiological approach to semi-quantitatively determine Scotia Sea sediment formation processes. The factors that control the localisation of chemosynthetic, microbial consortia in metalliferous sedime...