Experimental diagenesis: insights into aragonite to calcite transformation of Arctica islandica shells by hydrothermal treatment

• Published in: Biogeosciences
• Main Authors: Casella, Laura A., Griesshaber, Erika, Yin, Xiaofei, Ziegler, Andreas, Mavromatis, Vasileios, Müller, Dirk, Ritter, Ann-Christine, Hippler, Dorothee, Harper, Elizabeth M., Dietzel, Martin, Immenhauser, Adrian, Schöne, Bernd R., Angiolini, Lucia, Schmahl, Wolfgang W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2017
• Subjects: Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften; ddc:550; ddc:500; Simu; Arctica islandica
• Online Access: https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/54758/1/bg-14-1461-2017.pdf; https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/54758/; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-54758-4; https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1461-2017

Biomineralised hard parts form the most important physical fossil record of past environmental conditions. However, living organisms are not in thermodynamic equilibrium with their environment and create local chemical compartments within their bodies where physiologic processes such as biomineralis...