BIO-CLAYS

Bio-clays from several water media

 Coordinatore NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM 

 Organization address address: CROMWELL ROAD
city: LONDON
postcode: SW7 5BD

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Vanessa
Cognome: Pike
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 207 942 5530
Fax: +44 207 942 5530

 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 0 €
 EC contributo 238˙015 €
 Programma FP7-PEOPLE
Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call FP7-PEOPLE-IEF-2008
 Funding Scheme MC-IEF
 Anno di inizio 2009
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2009-05-05   -   2011-04-04

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

 Organization address address: CROMWELL ROAD
city: LONDON
postcode: SW7 5BD

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Vanessa
Cognome: Pike
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 207 942 5530
Fax: +44 207 942 5530

UK (LONDON) coordinator 238˙015.39

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combined    glass    chemistry    influence    volcanic    experiments    clay    clays    rate    biological    water    natural    microbial    micro    relative   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'This project aims at assessing the influence of microbial activity and water chemistry on the formation of clay. Clays are the natural product of the chemical weathering of silicate rocks at the lithosphere-hydrosphere-atmosphere contact. They interact greatly with water, air (they are transported long distances by the wind) and living organisms, especially those taking their nutrients directly from the soil. As a result, they are very important in all natural processes and human activities. Our knowledge of the inorganic processes producing clays is still incomplete. In addition, biological processes contribute significantly to the production of clays. It is necessary to study the effect of biological activity on the formation of clays in order to understand clay processes fully and, more generally, the geochemical cycles at the Earth’s surface. The project will study the combined influence of water chemistry and microbial activity on the rate of clay formation and the type of clay produced. Volcanic glass will be reacted with 4 types of natural water: spring water, freshwater, seawater and hypersaline water. The experiments will be carried out with and without microbial activity (the microbial activity will be that originally present in the natural water). During the experiments, the microbial activity (molecular methods) and the water chemistry will be monitored. After the experiments, the reaction products will be investigated using SEM, TEM, micro-infrared and micro-X-ray diffraction. The study will provide the following information: 1) relative and combined influence of water chemistry and microbiological activity on clay formation rate and clay chemistry; 2) relative influence of water and rock chemistry in controlling the composition of the clay formed; 3) interaction between the microorganisms and the volcanic glass and neoformed clay; 4) identity and development of the microbial populations.'

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