INTRODUCTION. Modern scleractinian corals produce skele-tons exclusively from the orthorhombic poly-morph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) known as aragonite (Cuif et …
Calcite is generally a major constituent of carbonate rocks and is a commonly found earth mineral. Limestones must be made of more than 50% carbonate minerals (Tucker and …
Coral powder (CP) emerges as an eco-friendly alternative to partially replace cement in concrete, addressing environmental concerns associated with cement production while …
The mechanism of calcite formation in soft coral sclerites that we report here is completely different from the mechanisms used by other calcifying marine …
In a recent Nature Communications article, Akiva et al. 1 purport to show that both coral planulae (free-swimming coral larvae) and polyps of juvenile corals …
Here, we exposed the branching stony coral Montipora digitata (Scleractinia) and the blue coral Heliopora coerulea (Octocorallia) to both calcite and aragonite …
Carbonates. Vigorous reaction with dilute HCL. Calcite is present in the rock limestone formed by coral organisms that build tropical coral reefs, it formed due to actions of living …
Microbial induced calcite precipitation (MICP), a bio-cementation process, can be adopted to improve the engineering properties of granular soils. Bio-stimulation, …
Calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) is abundant on Earth, is a major component of marine biominerals and thus of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks and it plays a …
We show that, locally, aragonite fluxes to the seafloor could be sufficient to suppress calcite dissolution in the top layer of the seabed, possibly causing calcite …