Publication Date:
2015-02-08
Description:
Article The role of cohesion is vital to our understanding of how sedimentary bedforms evolve. Here, the authors show that microorganisms within the sediment affect cohesion and demonstrate that ripples can take up to one hundred times as long to develop when extracellular polymeric substances are present. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms7257 Authors: Jonathan Malarkey, Jaco H. Baas, Julie A. Hope, Rebecca J. Aspden, Daniel R. Parsons, Jeff Peakall, David M. Paterson, Robert J. Schindler, Leiping Ye, Ian D. Lichtman, Sarah J. Bass, Alan G. Davies, Andrew J. Manning, Peter D. Thorne
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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