Degradative calcification of a modern siliceous sponge from the Great Bahama Bank, the Bahamas: A guide for interpretation of ancient sponge-bearing limestones

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 552-563

  Neuweiler, Fritz ^a   Daoust, Isabelle ^a   Bourque, Pierre André ^a   Burdige, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; BONE; CARBONATE MINERALS; CELL DEATH; COLLAGEN; LIME; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; TEXTURES; TISSUE;

ADHESIVE EFFECT; ARAGONITE CRYSTALS; COLLAGEN MATRICES; COLLAGEN NETWORKS; COLLAGEN SCAFFOLDS; CONNECTIVE TISSUES; ORGANIC COLLOIDS; SEDIMENT PARTICLES;

BIOMINERALIZATION;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMINERALIZATION; CALCIFICATION; LIMESTONE; SILICEOUS DEPOSIT; SPONGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREAT BAHAMA BANK;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SPHECIOSPONGIA VESPARIUM;

EID: 34447527140     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.058     Document Type: Article

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