The microbe-mineral environment and gypsum neogenesis in a weathered polar evaporite

Geobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 293-308

  Cockell, C S ^a   Osinski, G R ^b   Banerjee, N R ^b   Howard, K T ^c   Gilmour, I ^a   Watson, J S ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CALCIUM SULFATE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ALLOCHTHONY; BACTERIUM; BIOMINERALIZATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; EVAPORITE; FUNGUS; GYPSUM; METEORITE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORDOVICIAN; PIGMENT; POLAR REGION; REMOBILIZATION; SALINITY TOLERANCE; WEATHERING;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CANADA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEDIMENT;

ARCTIC REGIONS; BACTERIA; CALCIUM SULFATE; CANADA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUNGI; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CANADA; DEVON ISLAND; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

ARTHROBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROOCOCCIDIOPSIS; CYANOBACTERIA; FUNGI;

EID: 77955734329     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00240.x     Document Type: Article

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