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Sediment reactions defy dogma

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Redox reactions in widely spatially separated layers of marine sediments are coupled to each other. This suggests that bacteria mediate the flow of electrons between the layers — an idea that would previously have been dismissed.

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Figure 1: Coupled reactions in marine sediments.

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  1. Kenneth H. Nealson is in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90089-0740, USA. knealson@usc.edu,

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