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The study of biofilm oxalates creates the scientific basis for the development of modern nature-like biotechnologies in various fields of science and technology. Calcium (whewellite and weddellite) and copper (moolooite) oxalates in lichen thalli on scoria cones of Tolbachik volcano (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia) were firstly found. The morphology of oxalate crystal has been described. New species of lichens (Psylolechia leprosa, Sarcogyne hypophaea, Rinodina gennarii, Ochrolechia subplicans) producing oxalic acid, which leads to the formation of oxalates, have been discovered. It was concluded, that in the process of biomineralization the growth of oxalate crystals alternates with their dissolution.
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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant 19–17-00141). The study was carried out using the analytical capabilities of the Resource Centers of St. Petersburg State University: Centre for X-ray Diffraction Studies (RC XRD), Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis (RC MM) and Centre for Geo-Environmental Research and Modelling (RC Geomodel).
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Chernyshova, I.A., Vereshchagin, O.S., Zelenskaya, M.S., Vlasov, D.Y., Frank-Kamenetskaya, O.V., Himelbrant, D.E. (2023). Calcium and Cuprum Oxalates in Biofilms on the Surface of the Scoria Cones of Tolbachik Volcano. In: Marin, Y. (eds) XIII General Meeting of the Russian Mineralogical Society and the Fedorov Session. GMRMS 2021. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23390-6_3
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