Article Calcification and Diagenesis of Bacterial Colonies
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Citation Context ...ture (XANES) measurements of the present study were done usingsthe Scanning transmission X-ray microscope (STXM) located on beamline 5.3.2.2 (STXM Polymersbeamline) at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) =-=[49]-=-. Beamline 5.3.2.2. (ALS) uses soft X-rayss(250–800 eV) generated via a bending magnet while the electron current in the storage ring is heldsMinerals 2015, 5 492sconstant in top-off mode at 500 mA at... |
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Citation Context ...he presence of ~1 μm wide stick-like carbonate structures exhibiting ansabsorption peak at 288.6 eV in their C-XANES spectra. This peak could be attributed to the presencesMinerals 2015, 5 499sof EPS =-=[85]-=-. These minerals may thus result from extracellular precipitation of amorphous carbonatessthat may preferentially occur onto EPS molecules. The vertical orientation of the carbonate sticks maysbe rela... |
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Citation Context ... been performed at low Ga-ion currents using the FEI STRATAsDB 235 FIB system operating at the IEMN (Lille, France) to prepare electron and soft X-raystransparent ~15 μm × 5 μm × 80 nm cross-sections =-=[40]-=-. This extraction procedure maintains texturalsintegrity, even in the case of loosely consolidated materials [41,42], and prevents shrinkage andsdeformation of microscale to nanoscale pores, even in t... |
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Citation Context ...ation and diagenetic processes. Last, trapping of organics within minerals upon diagenesis andseven metamorphism has been shown to allow, to some extent, the preservation of geochemicalsbiosignatures =-=[14,24,25,29,88]-=-.sHere, the morphologies of the fossilized calcifying bacterial colonies appear very similar to the onessof the contemporary colonies, even down to the submicrometer scale. Such fine-scale morphologic... |
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Citation Context ... crystallographic orientation (perpendicular to cell walls) ofscrystalline phases precipitated within bacterial periplasm [61,86,87], at the cell surface or in associationswith cyanobacterial sheaths =-=[32]-=- may also promote the preservation of specific biosignatures uponsfossilization and diagenetic processes. Last, trapping of organics within minerals upon diagenesis andseven metamorphism has been show... |
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