LIBS analysis is efficient in the classification of mineral grains and prospecting Be Li granitoid rocks.

Different methods have been developed for mineral exploration so far, amongst which biological-based methods known as geomicrobiological studies are of the most recent ones. Geomicrobiology as an interdisciplinary approach has achieved great progresses during the past two decades and involves the study of microbes in a number of fundamental geological processes, both in the past and present. Th...

Archaea constitute a considerable fraction of the microbial biomass on Earth. Like Bacteria they have evolved a variety of energy metabolisms using organic and/or inorganic electron donors and acceptors, and many of them are able to fix carbon from inorganic sources. Archaea thus play crucial roles in the Earth's global geochemical cycles and influence greenhouse gas emissions. Methanogenesis a...

Argillaceous minerals in deposits of various sedimentary formations are characterized by specific chemical-mineralogical and morphological genetic features changing different stages sedimentogenesis, diagenesis, catagenesis, metagenesis. their associations terrigenous, terrigenous carbonate, volcanic, halogenic characterized. Detail characterization is given for argillaceous early sedimentogene...

As a secondary result of oil prospecting in Brazil, samples from the Campos Basin continental slope became available. In these samples, specimens of the genera Microgloma Sanders & Allen, 1973 and Pristigloma Dall, 1900 were found. This contribution provides the southernmost record of the genus Microgloma, the first record of Microgloma mirmidina (Dautzenberg & Fischer 1897) from the western At...