The Merced Formation comprises a 2-km-thick shallow marine and non-marine succession that was deposited in a small transtensional basin along the San Andreas Fault during the late Pliocene to middle Pleistocene. The sediments dip between 10j and 80j to the northeast, and are locally disrupted by small faults. During tilting, the beds have been rotated into subparallelism with the San Andreas Fa...

Aqueous phosphate uptake is needed to reduce global eutrophication. Negatively charged adsorbent surfaces usually give poor sorption. Chemically- and thermally-modified lignite (CTL) was prepared by impregnating low-cost (RL) with Ca2+ Mg2+ cations, basified KOH (pH ̴ 13.9), followed a 1 h 600 °C pyrolysis under nitrogen. CTL has positive surface (PZC = 13) due basic Ca Mg compounds, facilitatin...

Deep beneath the seafloor, microbial communities thrive on the leftovers of organic material that in the past settled down from the surface layers of the ocean to the sediment. As the organic matter was buried deeper and deeper over geological time it became increasingly recalcitrant to microbial degradation. Microbial cells that still persist in these ancient deposits appear to survive at the ...