Snot, Sticks, and Lots of Water: Iron Microbes as Minimalist Architects
Abstract
Mat textures of iron microbes (Leptothrix) are based on open scaffold structure with water pockets. Efficiently constructed from sheaths and EPS, macroscopic/microscopic structures can be preserved by diagenetic mineralization or clay infiltration.
- Publication:
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37th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006LPI....37.2004S