Organic Matter Preservation and Incipient Mineralization of Microtubules in 120 Ma Basaltic Glass

Organic Matter Preservation and Incipient Mineralization of Microtubules in 120 Ma Basaltic Glass

Hollow tubular structures in subaqueously-emplaced basaltic glass may represent trace fossils caused by microbially-mediated glass dissolution. Mineralized structures of similar morphology and spatial distribution in ancient, metamorphosed basaltic rocks have widely been interpreted as ichnofossils,...

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Main Authors: Matthew R. M. Izawa, James J. Dynes, Neil R. Banerjee, Roberta L. Flemming, Lachlan C. W. MacLean, Callum J. Hetherington, Sergei Matveev, Gordon Southam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
Subjects:
ichnofossils
biomolecule
basaltic glass
synchrotron XANES
Ontong Java Plateau
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/feart.2019.00149/full

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