Mineralogical, Physical and Geochemical Factors that Drive Microbial Reduction of Iron Oxides and Diagenesis under Broad Environmental Conditions

Yiran Dong1, Robert A. Sanford2, Maxim Boyanov3, Ken M Kemner3, Theodore M Flynn3, Edward J O'Loughlin4, Samantha George5, Kaitlyn Fouke6 and Bruce W Fouke5, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Geology, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (4)Argonne National Laboratory, Biosciences Division, Argonne, United States, (5)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (6)Denison University, Department of Biology, Granville, OH, United States