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Microbial Processes Forming Daily Lamination in an Aragonite Travertine, Nagano-yu Hot Spring, Southwest Japan
- Source :
- Geomicrobiology Journal. 28:135-148
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2011.
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Abstract
- An aragonite travertine at Nagano-yu hot spring, SW Japan, exhibits clear sub-millimeter-order lamination that resembles ancient ministromatolites. Thirty-three hours of continuous observation showed that the lamination is formed daily with no changes in physicochemical properties except light intensity. Phylotype analysis and fluorescence in situ hybridization indicate that Hydrogenophaga sp. is dominant and concentrated in diurnal layers containing abundant extracellular polymeric substances. Growth of Hydrogenophaga sp. is activated in the daytime, likely due to extracellular polymeric substance production by cyanobacterial photosynthesis. Daytime development of Hydrogenophaga-dominant biofilms, and the concurrent inhibiting effect on aragonite precipitation, explains the daily lamination observed.
- Subjects :
- 010506 paleontology
Honshu
Mineralogy
Lamination (topology)
engineering.material
Cyanobacteria
010502 geochemistry & geophysics
aragonite
microbial activity
01 natural sciences
Microbiology
Nagano
Citrus maxima
Extracellular polymeric substance
Japan
cyanobacterium
Daily lamination
travertine
lamination
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Hydrogenophaga
Environmental Chemistry
stromatolite
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
Hot spring
biology
Aragonite
Biofilm
biology.organism_classification
Hydrogenophaga sp
thermal spring
Light intensity
Stromatolite
Aragonite travertine
Chubu
Environmental chemistry
engineering
Geology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15210529 and 01490451
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Geomicrobiology Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e14a39b5646c147df5ce8ad152fc8b53