Unusual Micrometric Calcite–Aragonite Interface in the Abalone Shell Haliotis (Mollusca, Gastropoda)
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Unusual micrometric calcite-aragonite interface in the abalone shell Haliotis (Mollusca, Gastropoda).
Species of Haliotis (abalone) show high variety in structure and mineralogy of the shell. One of the European species (Haliotis tuberculata) in particular has an unusual shell structure in which calcite and aragonite coexist at a microscale with small patches of aragonite embedded in larger calcitic zones. A detailed examination of the boundary between calcite and aragonite using analytical mic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Microscopy and Microanalysis
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1431-9276,1435-8115
DOI: 10.1017/s1431927613013718