Microbial Sulfate Reduction and Its Role in Carbon Sequestration in Marine Sediments

0 INTRODUCTION The carbon buried in marine sediments in the form of organic carbon or carbonate minerals represents the largest pathway for carbon removal from Earth's surface environments(Sun and Turchyn,2014).Microbial sulfate reduction(MSR)is a fundamental biogeochemical process occurring in marine sediments,where sulfate-reducing bacteria(SRB)reduce sulfate(SO42-)to sulfide(S2-)using organic matter or methane as electron donors(Jorgensen,2021).