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Modifications of Selected Clay Minerals Due to Activity of Filamentous Alkaline Cyanobacteria

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Biogenic—Abiogenic Interactions in Natural and Anthropogenic Systems

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The aim of the study was to investigate the transformations of clay minerals at the laboratory experiments under the growth and fossilization of alkaline cyanobacteria. The clays incubation with cyanobacteria resulted in different trends of their transformations. The direction and intensity of transformation depends on type of clay mineral. The observed processes were fast and completed within the first 10–60 days of experiments. Cyanobacteria most actively influenced the processes of mineral dissolution and the transformations during the stage of their photosynthesis. Formation of carbonate in the experiments with palygorskite, bentonite, and kaolinite was observed at the stage of cyanobacteria fossilization.

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The investigation was supported by Program N28 of the Russian Academy of Sciences «Biosphere Origin and Evolution».

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  1. Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science RAS, Pushchino, Russia

    Andery O. Alekseev & Tatiana V. Alekseeva

  2. Institute of Microbiology RAS, Moscow, Russia

    Lyudmila M. Gerasimenko & Vladimir. K. Orleanskiy

  3. Paleontological Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia

    Galina T. Ushatinskaya

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  1. Institute of Earth Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Alekseev, A.O., Alekseeva, T.V., Gerasimenko, L.M., Orleanskiy, V.K., Ushatinskaya, G.T. (2016). Modifications of Selected Clay Minerals Due to Activity of Filamentous Alkaline Cyanobacteria. In: Frank-Kamenetskaya, O., Panova, E., Vlasov, D. (eds) Biogenic—Abiogenic Interactions in Natural and Anthropogenic Systems. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24987-2_4

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