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Microbial Mineral Dissolution and Environmental Disasters: Microbes and Their Mineral Interactions

Microbial Mineral Dissolution and Environmental Disasters: Microbes and Their Mineral Interactions

Arpitha Chikkanna, Devanita Ghosh
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 27
ISBN13: 9781522531265|ISBN10: 1522531262|EISBN13: 9781522531272
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3126-5.ch008
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Chikkanna, Arpitha, and Devanita Ghosh. "Microbial Mineral Dissolution and Environmental Disasters: Microbes and Their Mineral Interactions." Microbial Biotechnology in Environmental Monitoring and Cleanup, edited by Pankaj and Anita Sharma, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 125-151. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3126-5.ch008

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Chikkanna, A. & Ghosh, D. (2018). Microbial Mineral Dissolution and Environmental Disasters: Microbes and Their Mineral Interactions. In Pankaj & A. Sharma (Eds.), Microbial Biotechnology in Environmental Monitoring and Cleanup (pp. 125-151). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3126-5.ch008

Chicago

Chikkanna, Arpitha, and Devanita Ghosh. "Microbial Mineral Dissolution and Environmental Disasters: Microbes and Their Mineral Interactions." In Microbial Biotechnology in Environmental Monitoring and Cleanup, edited by Pankaj and Anita Sharma, 125-151. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3126-5.ch008

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Abstract

Microorganisms play very important role in elemental and mineral chemistry on earth surface. Along with the major biogeochemical cycles such as Carbon, Nitrogen, Sulphur and Phosphorus, which are crucially involved in thermodynamic balances in earth system, microbes are also involved in trace metal cycling. The organic carbon sustaining the indigenous microbial communities critically controls these microbial processes. A large number of the microbial communities are able to form a wide variety minerals, of which many have only biogenic origin and cannot be formed inorganically. Microbes also play a critical role in dissolution of minerals; a process which not only helps in soil formation and the transport of nutrients to higher trophic levels, but can also have many important industrial roles. Thus, in these metabolic activities, microorganisms contribute to the geological phenomenon of the transformation of metals and minerals. This chapter focuses on the role of various microbial metabolic processes that are involved in mineralization and mineral dissolution and the consequences involved with it.

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