Biomineralization of endolithic microbes in rocks from the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica: implications for microbial fossil formation and their detection

• Main Authors: Wierzchos, Jacek, García Sancho, Leopoldo, Ascaso, Carmen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing 2005
• Subjects: Biomineralization; Endolithic microbes in rocks; Microbial fossil; Commonwealth Glacier; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/17080; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00725.x

10 páges, and photos. In some zones of Antarctica’s cold and dry desert, the extinction of cryptoendolithic microorganisms leaves behind inorganic traces of microbial life. In this paper, we examine the transition from live microorganisms, through their decay, to microbial fossils using in situ micr...