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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2021

Shaping of the Present-Day Deep Biosphere at Chicxulub by the Impact Catastrophe That Ended the Cretaceous.

Charles S Cockell, Bettina Schaefer, Cornelia Wuchter, Marco J L Coolen, Kliti Grice, Luzie Schnieders, Joanna V Morgan, Sean P S Gulick, Axel Wittmann, Johanna Lofi and 13 more

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Where the microbes aren't.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

23 authors.

Charles S CockellUK Centre for Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Bettina SchaeferWA-Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre (WA-OIGC), School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Institute for Geoscience Research, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia.
Cornelia WuchterWA-Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre (WA-OIGC), School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Institute for Geoscience Research, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia.
Marco J L CoolenWA-Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre (WA-OIGC), School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Institute for Geoscience Research, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia.
Kliti GriceWA-Organic and Isotope Geochemistry Centre (WA-OIGC), School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Institute for Geoscience Research, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, Australia.
Luzie SchniedersMARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
Joanna V MorganDepartment of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Sean P S GulickInstitute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
Axel WittmannArizona State University, Eyring Materials Center, Tempe, AZ, United States.
Johanna LofiGéosciences Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France.
Gail L ChristesonInstitute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
David A KringLunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States.
Michael T WhalenDepartment of Geosciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States.
Timothy J BralowerDepartment of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
Gordon R OsinskiInstitute for Earth and Space Exploration and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
Philippe ClaeysAnalytical, Environmental and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Pim KaskesAnalytical, Environmental and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Sietze J de GraaffAnalytical, Environmental and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Thomas DéhaisAnalytical, Environmental and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Steven GoderisAnalytical, Environmental and Geo-Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
Natali Hernandez BecerraDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, IN, United States.
Sophie NixonDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, IN, United States.
IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 Scientists

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report on the effect of the end-Cretaceous impact event on the present-day deep microbial biosphere at the impact site. IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 drilled into the peak ring of the Chicxulub crater, México, allowing us to investigate the microbial communities within this structure. Increased cell biomass was found in the impact suevite, which was deposited within the first few hours of the Cenozoic, demonstrating that the impact produced a new lithological horizon that caused a long-term improvement in deep subsurface colonization potential. In the biologically impoverished granitic rocks, we observed increased cell abundances at impact-induced geological interfaces, that can be attributed to the nutritionally diverse substrates and/or elevated fluid flow. 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing revealed taxonomically distinct microbial communities in each crater lithology. These observations show that the impact caused geological deformation that continues to shape the deep subsurface biosphere at Chicxulub in the present day.

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