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In order to generate energy to form new cell structures, microorganisms (primarily bacteria and fungi) that are present in large number and diversity in natural environments (soils, waters, sediments) break down organic and inorganic materials and form large amounts of gaseous, liquid and solid metabolic compounds that they excrete into their environment.
Such microbial processes are involved either in the solubilization or the insolubilization of inorganic elements, in the weathering of minerals (silicates, phosphates, carbonates, sulfides, oxides) and in the formation of deposits (carbonates, oxides, sulfides, phosphates). They depend on the environmental conditions and have been shown to occur in the cycling of elements, the formation and evolution of different soils and the formation of different deposits. But the relative importance of environmental conditions on biotic and abiotic processes is still unknown.
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Berthelin, J. (1988). Microbial Weathering Processes in Natural Environments. In: Lerman, A., Meybeck, M. (eds) Physical and Chemical Weathering in Geochemical Cycles. NATO ASI Series, vol 251. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3071-1_3
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