Animal-sediment interactions: the effect of ingestion and excretion by worms on mineralogy
By controlled experiments that simulate marine depositional environments, it is shown that accelerated weathering and clay mineral authigenesis occur during the combined process of ingestion, digestion and excretion of fine-grained sediment by two species of annelid worms. Previously characterized s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Biogeosciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.biogeosciences.net/1/113/2004/bg-1-113-2004.pdf |