The power of microbial life in marine sediments

James Andrew Bradley1, Sandra Arndt2, Jan Amend3, Ewa Burwicz4, Andrew Dale4, Matthias Egger5 and Douglas LaRowe1, (1)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussel, Belgium, (3)University of Southern California, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (5)Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences - Geochemistry, Utrecht, Netherlands