Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface to First Edition
- A Note About Software
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Modeling Overview
- PART I EQUILIBRIUM IN NATURAL WATERS
- PART II REACTION PROCESSES
- PART III APPLIED REACTION MODELING
- 26 Hydrothermal Fluids
- 27 Geothermometry
- 28 Evaporation
- 29 Sediment Diagenesis
- 30 Kinetics ofWater–Rock Interaction
- 31 Weathering
- 32 Oxidation and Reduction
- 33 Waste InjectionWells
- 34 Petroleum Reservoirs
- 35 Acid Drainage
- 36 Contamination and Remediation
- 37 Microbial Communities
- Appendix A Sources of Modeling Software
- Appendix B Evaluating the HMW Activity Model
- Appendix C Minerals in the LLNL Database
- Appendix D Nonlinear Rate Laws
- References
- Index
37 - Microbial Communities
from PART III - APPLIED REACTION MODELING
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface to First Edition
- A Note About Software
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Modeling Overview
- PART I EQUILIBRIUM IN NATURAL WATERS
- PART II REACTION PROCESSES
- PART III APPLIED REACTION MODELING
- 26 Hydrothermal Fluids
- 27 Geothermometry
- 28 Evaporation
- 29 Sediment Diagenesis
- 30 Kinetics ofWater–Rock Interaction
- 31 Weathering
- 32 Oxidation and Reduction
- 33 Waste InjectionWells
- 34 Petroleum Reservoirs
- 35 Acid Drainage
- 36 Contamination and Remediation
- 37 Microbial Communities
- Appendix A Sources of Modeling Software
- Appendix B Evaluating the HMW Activity Model
- Appendix C Minerals in the LLNL Database
- Appendix D Nonlinear Rate Laws
- References
- Index
Summary
Geochemists increasingly find a need to better understand the distribution of microbial life within the geosphere, and the interaction of the communities of microbes there with the fluids and minerals they contact. How do geochemical conditions determine where microbial communities develop, and what groups of microbes they contain? And how do those communities affect the geochemistry of their environments? In this chapter we use multicomponent chemical reaction modeling combined with thermodynamically consistent kinetic expressions to explore how microbially catalyzed reactions proceed in the laboratory and in nature.
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- Geochemical and Biogeochemical Reaction Modeling , pp. 439 - 450Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022