Abstract:
Microbial mats taken from the Lake Vanda and Onyx at Victotia Land, Antarctica,showed the presence of nanometer sized barite crystals with alga. Algal biomineralization might widely occur even in low temperature environment.
Tazaki K., et al., Transformation Processes of Microbial Barite to Sediments in Antarctica, Journal of the Mineralogical Society, Vol.26, No.2, 63-68pp. 1997