Environmental and Biological Influences on Carbonate Precipitation Within Hot Spring Microbial Mats in Little Hot Creek, CA

Environmental and Biological Influences on Carbonate Precipitation Within Hot Spring Microbial Mats in Little Hot Creek, CA

Microbial mats are found in a variety of modern environments, with evidence for their presence as old as the Archean. There is much debate about the rates and conditions of processes that eventually lithify and preserve mats as microbialites. Here, we apply novel tracer experiments to quantify both...

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Main Authors: Dylan T. Wilmeth, Hope A. Johnson, Blake W. Stamps, William M. Berelson, Bradley S. Stevenson, Heather S. Nunn, Sharon L. Grim, Megan L. Dillon, Olivia Paradis, Frank A. Corsetti, John R. Spear
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
microbial mat
carbonate precipitation
biomineralization
carbon fixation
hot spring
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01464/full

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