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On Microbiocorrosion

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Destruction of rocks and minerals by biological activities has been termed bioerosion (Neumann 1966). It includes mechanical as well as chemical effects, i.e. bioabrasion and biocorrosion (Schneider 1976; Golubic and Schneider 1979). However both processes often co-occur; they are functionally interconnected and mutually supportive. Biocorrosion can result from the activity of macro- or micro- organisms and thus is called macrobiocorrosion and microbiocorrosion. Microbiocorrosion can also be closely associated with microbial rock formation and consolidation in stromatolitic structures (Reid et al. 2000; Macintyre et al.

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  1. LOPB, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, BP A5, 98848, Nouméa Cedex, New Caledonia

    Aline Tribollet

  2. Biological Science Center, Boston University, 05 Cummington Str, Boston, MA, 02215, USA

    Stjepko Golubic

  3. Hessisches Landesamt für Umwelt und Geologie, Rheingaustr, 186, 65203, Wiesbaden, Germany

    Gudrun Radtke

  4. Department of Geobiology and Center for Geosciences, University of Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 3, 37077, Göttingen, Germany

    Joachim Reitner

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Tribollet, A., Golubic, S., Radtke, G., Reitner, J. (2011). On Microbiocorrosion. 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_17

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