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ArticleNature communications2019

Carbonate formation in salt dome cap rocks by microbial anaerobic oxidation of methane.

K H Caesar, J R Kyle, T W Lyons, A Tripati, S J Loyd

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Mineral Carbonation for Carbon Sequestration: A Case for MCP and MICP.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  3. Cold seep formation from salt diapir-controlled deep biosphere oases.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

K H CaesarDepartment of Geological Sciences, California State University, Fullerton, 800 North State College Boulevard, Fullerton, CA, 92831, USA.
J R KyleDepartment of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2275 Speedway Stop C9000, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5319-8941
T W LyonsDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA.
A TripatiDepartment of Earth, Space and Planetary Sciences, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, 595 Charles Young Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
S J LoydDepartment of Geological Sciences, California State University, Fullerton, 800 North State College Boulevard, Fullerton, CA, 92831, USA. sloyd@fullerton.edu.
California State University, Fullerton · USThe University of Texas at Austin · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of California, Riverside · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Major hydrocarbon accumulations occur in traps associated with salt domes. Whereas some of these hydrocarbons remain to be extracted for economic use, significant amounts have degraded in the subsurface, yielding mineral precipitates as byproducts. Salt domes of the Gulf of Mexico Basin typically exhibit extensive deposits of carbonate that form as cap rock atop salt structures. Despite previous efforts to model cap rock formation, the details of subsurface reactions (including the role of microorganisms) remain largely unknown. Here we show that cap rock mineral precipitation occurred via closed-system sulfate reduction, as indicated by new sulfur isotope data.

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AnaerobiosisCarbonatesGeologic SedimentsGulf of AmericaLouisianaMethaneOxidation-ReductionSulfatesSulfurSulfur IsotopesTexasCarbonatesMethaneSulfatesSulfurSulfur Isotopes

Identifiers

PMID30778057
PMCPMC6379371
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