Microbial mediation of textures and minerals – terrestrial or parent body processes?

Autor: Polgári Márta, Gyollai Ildikó, Bérczi Szaniszló, Veres Miklós, Gucsik Arnold, Elemér Pál-Molnár
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Open Astronomy, Vol 28, Iss 1, Pp 40-60 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2543-6376
DOI: 10.1515/astro-2019-0004
Popis: Evolution of chondritic parent body is influenced by thermal, impact metamorphism and aqueous alteration, studied in Mező-Madaras, Knyahinya, Mócs and Nyírábrány in aspect of high resolution in situ textural, mineralogical and organic geochemical characteristics, using optical microscopy, FTIR-ATR and Raman spectroscopy. Our observations focused on Fe-containing opaque grains, glass, olivines and pyroxenes, which were well populated by micrometer-sized microbial filamentous elements in their boundary region within matrix and inside the minerals resembling mineralized microbially produced textures (MMPT), affecting 70-80 vol% of samples. In MMPT iron oxides (ferrihydrite, goethite), olivine, montmorillonite, kandite minerals and various hydrocarbon compounds were identified.
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