Evidence of microbial activity in the formation of manganese wads at the Asahidake hot spring in Hokkaido, Japan

Resource Geology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 233-238

  Mita, Naoki ^a   Miura, Hiroyuki ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hot spring; Microbial formation; Mt. Asahidake; Recent manganese deposit

Indexed keywords

HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; MANGANESE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; THERMAL SPRING; VOLCANISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; MOUNT ASAHIDAKE;

EID: 0348195640     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2003.tb00173.x     Document Type: Article

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