Calcium carbonate precipitation induced by a bacterium strain isolated from an oligotrophic cave in Central China

Frontiers of Earth Science in China

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 148-151

  Wang, Hongmei ^a   Zeng, Cuiping ^b   Liu, Qianying ^a   Liu, Deng ^a   Qiu, Xuan ^a   Gong, Linfeng ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacillus; Bacterially induced mineral formation; Calcium carbonate; Oligotrophic karst cave

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; KARST; MINERALIZATION; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY);

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 77952139917     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-010-0017-5     Document Type: Article

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