Decomposition of aluminosilicates and accumulation of aluminum by microorganisms on fumarole fields of tolbachik volcano (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia)

Abstract

Although aluminum is the significant constituent of weathered minerals, its precipitating by microorganisms is not well studied. Moreover, the participation of microorganisms in biogenic aluminum hydroxides formation is still has no wide experimental justification (Sneath et al. 1997). The present paper gives such facts of the microbiological origin of aluminum sediments on a recent volcano.