On the origin of fiber calcite crystals in moonmilk deposits

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-32

  Cañaveras, Juan Carlos ^a   Cuezva, Soledad ^b   Sanchez Moral, Sergio ^b   Lario, Javier ^c   Laiz, Leonila ^d   Gonzalez, Juan Miguel ^d   Saiz Jimenez, Cesareo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

CAVE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FIBER; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROORGANISM; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRECIPITATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CALCIUM CARBONATE; GEOLOGY; METEOROIDS; MINERALS; SPAIN;

EID: 31344442003     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-005-0052-3     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Borsato A, Frisia S, Jones B, Van der Borg K (2000) Calcite moonmilk: crystal morphology and environment of formation in caves in the Italian Alps. J Sediment Res 70:1179-1190
2. Cañaveras JC, Hoyos M, Sanchez-Moral S, Sanz-Rubio E, Bedoya J, Soler V, Groth I, Schumann P, Laiz L, Gonzalez I, Saiz-Jimenez C (1999) Microbial communities associated with hydromagnesite and needle fiber aragonite deposits in a karstic cave (Altamira, northern Spain). Geomicrobiol J 16:9-25
3. Caumartin V, Renault P (1958) La corrosion biochimique dans un réseau karstique et la génèse du mondmilch. Notes Biospéléol 13:87-109
4. Forti P (2001) Biogenic speleothems: an overwiew. Int J Speleol 30A:39-56
5. Gonzalez JM, Portillo MC, Saiz-Jimenez C (2005a) Multiple displacement amplification as a pre-polymerase chain reaction (pre-PCR) to process difficult to amplify samples and low copy number sequences from natural environments. Environ Microbiol 7:1024-1028
6. Gonzalez JM, Portillo MC, Saiz-Jimenez C (2005b) Metabolically active Crenarchaeota in Altamira Cave. Naturwissenschaften (in press)
7. Gradzinski M, Szulc J, Smyk B (1997) Microbial agents of moonmilk calcification. In: Jeannin PY (ed) Proceedings 12th International Congress of Speleology, vol 1. Swiss Speleological Society, La Chaux-de-Fonds, pp 275-278
8. Jones B, Kahle CF (1993) Morphology, relationship, and origin of fiber and dendritic calcite crystals. J Sediment Petrol 63:1018-1031
9. Laiz L, Groth I, Gonzalez I, Saiz-Jimenez C (1999) Microbiological study of the dripping waters in Altamira Cave (Santillana del Mar, Spain). J Microbiol Methods 36:129-138
10. Northup DE, Lavoie KH (2001) Geomicrobiology of caves: a review. Geomicrobiol J 18:199-222
11. Olszta MJ, Gajjeraman S, Kaufman M, Gower LB (2004) Nanofibrous calcite synthesized via a solution-precursor-solid mechanism. Chem Mater 16:2355-2362
12. Phillips SE, Self PG (1987) Morphology, crystallography and origin of needle-fibre calcite in quaternary pedogenic calcretes of South Australia. Aust J Soil Res 25:429-444
13. Pochon MJ, Chalvignac MA, Krumbein WE (1964) Recherches biologiques sur le mondmilch. C R Acad Sci Paris 258:5113-5115
14. Saiz-Jimenez C, Hermosin B (1999) The nature of the organic matter present in dripping waters from Altamira Cave. J Anal Appl Pyrolysis 49:337-347
15. Sanchez-Moral S, Soler V, Cañaveras JC, Sanz E, Van Grieken R, Gysels K (1999) Inorganic deterioration affecting the Altamira Cave, N Spain: quantitative approach to wall-corrosion (solutional etching) processes induced by visitors. Sci Total Environ 243/244:67-84
16. Sanchez-Moral S, Cañaveras JC, Laiz L, Saiz-Jimenez C, Bedoya J, Luque L (2003) Biomediated precipitation of calcium carbonate metastable phases in hypogean environments: a short review. Geomicrobiol J 20:491-500
17. Verrecchia EP, Verrecchia KE (1994) Needle-fiber calcite: a critical review and a proposed classification. J Sediment Res A64:650-664
18. Wilkinson HP (2003) Fossil actinomycete filaments and fungal hyphae in dicotyledonuous wood from the Eocene London Clay, Isle-of-Sheppey, Kent, England. Bot J Linn Soc 142:383-394