Processes Forming Daily Lamination in a Microbe-Rich Travertine Under Low Flow Condition at the Nagano-yu Hot Spring, Southwestern Japan

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 910-927

  Okumura, Tomoyo ^a   Takashima, Chizuru ^b   Shiraishi, Fumito ^c   Nishida, Shin ^d   Kano, Akihiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

biofilm; cyanobacteria; daily lamination; stromatolite; travertine

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; CYANOBACTERIUM; FORMATION MECHANISM; GROWTH RATE; HETEROTROPHY; LAMINATION; LOW FLOW; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); STROMATOLITE; THERMAL SPRING; TRAVERTINE;

CHUBU; HONSHU; JAPAN; NAGANO;

EID: 84881634901     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: 15210529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490451.2013.791355     Document Type: Article

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