Rock surfaces as life indicators: New ways to demonstrate life and traces of former life

Astrobiology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 203-213

  Gorbushina, Anna A ^a   Krumbein, Wolfgang E ^a   Volkmann, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogenic geomorphological features; Biominerals; Biosignatures; Desert varnish; Microbially altered rock surfaces; Microcolonial fungi; Rock inhabiting microflora; Spectroscopic markers; Subaerial biofilms

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; FUNGUS; GEOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; YEAST;

AUSTRALIA; BIOGENESIS; EXOBIOLOGY; FUNGI; GEOLOGY; ISRAEL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; YEASTS;

EID: 0036616506     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/15311070260192273     Document Type: Article

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