SREL Reprint #2677

Introduction: Isotopic records of microbially mediated processes

Timothy W. Lyons1, Chuanlun L. Zhang2, and Christopher S. Romanek3

1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri, 101 Geological Sciences Building, Columbia MO 65211 USA
2Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, USA
3Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and Department of Geology, University of Georgia, USA

The seed for this special issue was planted at a topical session organized for the 1999 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America and sponsored by the Geochemical Society. As organizers of the session, we considered ourselves to be among an already large but rapidly growing group of researchers straddling the interface between biology and geology. This interface spans phenomena occurring at many scales—ranging from microbes and molecules to oceans and continents and from seconds to billions of years—but our vision for the GSA session and indeed for this volume was narrowed to the Isotopic Records of Microbially Mediated Processes. Despite the narrowed focus, the range of relevant topics is still vast. We have designed a volume that represents many areas of isotopic research and the coupled biogeochemical cycles. . . .

SREL Reprint #2677

Lyons, T. W., C. L. Zhang, and C. S. Romanek. 2003. Introduction Isotopic records of microbially mediated processes. Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience) 195:1-4.

This information was provided by the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (srel.uga.edu).