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The Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory (Äspö HRL) is a tunnel located near Oskarshamn in the southeast of Sweden, that serves as a testing environment for the disposal of nuclear waste. The Äspö HRL hosts and makes accessible a wide spectrum of microbially driven subsurface ecosystems (Pedersen 1997).
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We are grateful to the Äspö HRL for excellent assistance and the admission to work in the tunnel of Äspö. The authors acknowledge Dr. B. Schmidt (Mineralogy, GZG Univ. Göttingen) for help with the Raman spectrometer and Dr. K. Techmer (Crystallography, GZG Univ. Göttingen) for help with the ESEM. This study was financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) through the Research Unit FOR 571/1&2. This is publication no. 50 of the DFG Research Unit FOR 571 “Geobiology of Organo- and Biofilms”
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Kurz, J., Simon, K., Heim, C., Reitner, J., Quéric, N., Thiel, V. (2011). Trace Element and Biomarker Signatures in Iron-Precipitating Microbial Mats from the Tunnel of Äspö (Sweden). In: Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10415-2_15
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