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2. Microbial mat - Wikipedia

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   A microbial mat is a multi-layered sheet or biofilm of microbial colonies, composed of mainly bacteria and/or archaea. Microbial mats grow at interfaces between different types of material, mostly on submerged or moist surfaces, but a few survive in deserts. [1] A few are found as endosymbionts of animals.

3. Microbially induced sedimentary structure - Wikipedia

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   The image shows the location, in the Burgsvik beds of Sweden, where the texture was first identified as evidence of a microbial mat. [ 1 ] Microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) are primary sedimentary structures formed by the interaction of microbes with sediment and physical agents of erosion, deposition, and transportation.

4. Phototrophic biofilm - Wikipedia

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   Phototrophic biofilms and microbial mats have been described in extreme environments like thermal springs, [3] hyper saline ponds, [4] desert soil crusts, and in lake ice covers in Antarctica. The 3.4-billion-year fossil record of benthic phototrophic communities, such as microbial mats and stromatolites , indicates that these associations ...

5. Your Dish Drying Mat Is *Loaded* With Bacteria—Here ... - AOL

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   Not unlike your bacteria-covered bath mat, your dish drying mat is totally gross. It’s true. It’s true. Just because your dishes are freshly-washed doesn’t mean bacteria isn’t lurking.

6. Contamination control - Wikipedia

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   Contamination control is the generic term for all activities aiming to control the existence, growth and proliferation of contamination in certain areas. Contamination control may refer to the atmosphere as well as to surfaces, to particulate matter as well as to microbes and to contamination prevention as well as to decontamination.

7. Microbialite - Wikipedia

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   The organic component is an elaborate microbial mat where different communities of microorganisms interact according to different metabolisms and create a micro-niche where oxygenic and anoxygenic phototrophic organisms coexist: nitrogen fixers, sulfur reducers, methaneotrophs, methanogens, iron oxidizers, and an infinity of heterotrophic ...

8. Study finds disturbing amount of fecal contamination at U.S ...

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   Many state or local governments monitor the presence of bacteria in the water at heavily used beaches during the summer and post warnings online.

9. Flesh-eating bacteria found in seaweed on Florida beaches - AOL

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   Researchers warn a massive belt of Sargassum seaweed headed towards the state could be infected with the deadly Vibrio bacteria Flesh-eating bacteria found in seaweed on Florida beaches Skip to ...