HIGH MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY IN A HIGHLY SALINE SULFATE-RICH AQUIFER UNDERGOING BIODEGRADATION OF HYDROCARBON RESULTS FROM SULFATE REDUCTION.

Eliot A Atekwana1, Estella A Atekwana2, Allison Enright2, Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis3, Lee D Slater4, Rene Bernier5, Carol Lynn Beaver6 and Silvia Rossbach6, (1)University of California Davis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, (2)Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, (3)Rutgers University Newark, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Newark, NJ, United States, (4)Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Newark, United States, (5)Chevron Energy Technology Company, Environmental Unit, Waste & Remediation, Huston, TX, United States, (6)Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, United States