Editors:
- Is the first synthesis of hydrothermal sites both in arc–back-arc and mid ocean ridge settings
- Presents an overview as well as original work to enhance understanding
- Delivers all results of the comprehensive TAIGA project at a glance
- Provides first-hand data in electric supplementary material(s)
- Targets researchers not only in oceanology but in wide fields (biology and earth science)
- Covers diverse study fields for synthetical understanding of subseafloor processes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (51 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Interdisciplinary Studies
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Central Indian Ridge
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Front Matter
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Southern Mariana Trough
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About this book
This book is the comprehensive volume of the TAIGA (“a great river ” in Japanese) project. Supported by the Japanese government, the project examined the hypothesis that the subseafloor fluid advection system (subseafloor TAIGA) can be categorized into four types, TAIGAs of sulfur, hydrogen, carbon (methane), and iron, according to the most dominant reducing substance, and the chemolithoautotrophic bacteria/archaea that are inextricably associated with respective types of TAIGAs which are strongly affected by their geological background such as surrounding host rocks and tectonic settings. Sub-seafloor ecosystems are sustained by hydrothermal circulation or TAIGA that carry chemical energy to the chemosynthetic microbes living in an extreme environment. The results of the project have been summarized comprehensively in 50 chapters, and this book provides an overall introduction and relevant topics on the mid-ocean ridge system of the Indian Ocean and on the arc-backarc systems ofthe Southern Mariana Trough and Okinawa Trough.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Hakata, Japan
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi
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The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kyoko Okino, Michinari Sunamura
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Subseafloor Biosphere Linked to Hydrothermal Systems
Book Subtitle: TAIGA Concept
Editors: Jun-ichiro Ishibashi, Kyoko Okino, Michinari Sunamura
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54865-2
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54864-5Published: 29 January 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56191-0Published: 08 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-54865-2Published: 10 January 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 666
Number of Illustrations: 137 b/w illustrations, 235 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biogeosciences, Oceanography, Geochemistry