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Solubilization, Transport, and Deposition of Mineral Cations by Microorganisms - Efficient Rock Weathering Agents

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Mineral environments such as rocks or building stones are usually thought to contain few living micoorganisms. This might be true for stones that have just been quarried or lava shortly after a volcanic eruption, but once the surface of a stone has been exposed to the environment, considerable numbers of various different types of organisms can be observed. In surface samples of freshly-worked building stones, for example, 103 colony forming units (cfu) of heterotrophic bacteria and filamentous fungi per gram of stone were observed after 3 days exposure (39).

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Eckhardt, F.E.W. (1985). Solubilization, Transport, and Deposition of Mineral Cations by Microorganisms - Efficient Rock Weathering Agents. In: Drever, J.I. (eds) The Chemistry of Weathering. Nato ASI Series, vol 149. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5333-8_10

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