Calcium carbonate precipitation in cyanobacterial mats from sandy tidal flats of the North Sea

Geobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-56

  Kremer, B ^a   Kazmierczak, J ^a   Stal, L J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

BEACH; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CYANOBACTERIUM; EXOPOLYMER; ISLAND; MICROBIAL MAT; ORGANIC MATTER; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SAND; SECRETION; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; TIDAL FLAT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYANOBACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CYANOBACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NETHERLANDS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRIESLAND; FRISIAN ISLANDS; NETHERLANDS; NORTH SEA; SCHIERMONNIKOOG; WEST FRISIAN ISLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 37549041331     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2007.00128.x     Document Type: Article

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