Possible evidence for the biogenic formation of spheroidal ferromanganese concretions from the eastern Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea

Baltica

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-29

  Zhang, Fu Sheng ^a   Lin, Cheng Yi ^a   Bian, Li Zeng ^a   Glasby, Geoffrey P ^b   Zhamoida, Vladimir A ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c A P KARPINSKY RUSSIAN GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bacterial processes; Electron microscopy; Fe Mn concretions; Gulf of Finland

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549105318     PISSN: 00673064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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