Characteristics of microbial communities and their correlation with environmental substrates and sediment type in the gas-bearing formation of Hangzhou Bay, China

• Main Authors: Yu, Tao, Zhang, Meng, Kang, Da, Zhao, Shuang, Ding, Aqiang, Lin, Qiujian, Xu, Dongdong, Hong, Yi, Wang, Lizhong, Zheng, Ping
• Other Authors: Advanced Environmental Biotechnology Centre
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Science::Geology; Shallow Gas; Gas Bearing Formation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142063
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Shallow gas is a kind of natural gas buried in shallow strata, generally, with methane as the main component, endowing it a potential energy resource while also a potential risk to the safety of ground engineering and environment. Microbial activity is usually regarded as an important driving force...