Vertical Microbial Community Variability of Carbonate-based Cones may Provide Insight into Formation in the Rock Record

Caitlin Bojanowski1, Christopher Trivedi2, Leslie Keiclyn Daille3, James Bradley4, Hope Johnson5, Blake W Stamps6, Bradley S. Stevenson7, William Berelson8, Frank A Corsetti8 and John R Spear9, (1)University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, (3)Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Santiago, Chile, (4)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (5)California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States, (6)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (7)Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, United States, (8)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (9)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States