The formation of the mineral dolomite is still puzzling scientists. Researchers have now shown that bacteria can facilitate the formation of dolomite. The study has been published online in the ...

Magnesium isotope geochemistry has emerged as a fundamental tool for decoding the complex pathways of elemental cycling in marine environments. The isotopic composition of magnesium (commonly reported ...

Research published recently has shown that what were thought to be the columns of a sunken city found in the sea of the Greek island of Zakynthos were actually made by microbial activity, not ancient ...

Dolomite mountains: the Cristallo massif in the Italian Alps contains large quantities of dolomite. (Courtesy: kallerna/CC BY-SA 4.0) Dolomite is one of the most abundant carbonate minerals on Earth, ...

Unexplained mountains are always disconcerting for geologists. But for certain sludge-dwelling bacteria, making dolomite is no problem at all. There was a time when Earth made dolomite in great piles- ...

The Dolomites are about 250 millions years old and are composed mainly of sedimentary rocks and limestone. Today, we can hardly imagine that once the mighty mountains were an enormous coral reef, ...

Scientists from the University of Michigan and Hokkaido University in Japan have achieved a groundbreaking accomplishment by successfully growing dolomite, a common mineral, in a laboratory. This ...

Dolomite has been notoriously impossible to replicate in a lab because of recurring defects in mineral layers—but not anymore.

Lateral metre-scale periodic variations in porosity and composition are found in many dolomite strata. Such variations may embed important information about dolomite formation and transformation. Here ...

Not only in the Dolomites, but throughout the world dolomite is quite common. More than 90 percent of dolomite is made up of the mineral dolomite. It was first described scientifically in the 18th ...