Grain-Trapping by Microbial Mats—A Key Mechanism of Sediment Accumulation in Mangroves?

Lizzy Trower1, Taleen Mahseredjian1, Irina Overeem1,2, Maya Gomes3, Cecilia Howard3, Usha Farey Lingappa4, Theodore Present4 and Elizabeth C Sibert5, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Geological Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences & Harvard Society of Fellows, Cambridge, MA, United States