Assessing the Biological Contribution to Mineralized Cap Formation in the Little Hot Creek Hot Spring System

James Gregory Floyd1, Scott Randall Beeler2, Rodolfo Agustin Mors3, Emily Antoinette Kraus4, GeoBiology 20165, Olivia Piazza Paradis6, Carie Marie Frantz7, Sean J Loyd8, William Berelson9, Bradley S. Stevenson10, Pedro J Marenco11, John R Spear4 and Frank A Corsetti9, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (3)Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, Córdoba, Argentina, (4)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (5)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (6)University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)Weber State University, Department of Geosciences, Ogden, UT, United States, (8)California State University Fullerton, Department of Geological Sciences, Fullerton, CA, United States, (9)University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (11)Bryn Mawr College, Department of Geology, Bryn Mawr, PA, United States
Scientific Team Name: GeoBiology 2016