Global production of shell calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) from bivalve aquaculture amounts
about 13.6 million metric tons per year. Shells, traditionally considered a waste of …

Contemporary environmental challenges have emphasized the need to critically assess the
use of bivalve mollusks in chemical monitoring (identification and quantification of …

Estuarine organisms are exposed to periodic strong fluctuations in seawater pH driven by
biological carbon dioxide (CO 2) production, which may in the future be further exacerbated …

Synchronized transitions in the polymorph mineralogy of the major reef-building and
sediment-producing calcareous marine organisms and abiotic CaCO 3 precipitates (ooids …

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The biogenic polymer/mineral composite nacre is a non-brittle biological ceramic, which self-
organises in aqueous environment and under ambient conditions. It is therefore an …

The biogenic carbonate hard parts of fossil bivalves, cephalopods and brachiopods are
among the most widely exploited marine archives of Phanerozoic environmental and climate …

Carbonate mineralogies have oscillated between aragonite and calcite seas through
geological time, proposed to be due mainly to secular variation in the magnesium/calcium …

Nacre, or mother-of-pearl, the tough, iridescent biomineral lining the inner side of some
mollusk shells, has alternating biogenic aragonite (calcium carbonate, CaCO3) tablet layers …

Shifts in the magnesium to calcium ratio of seawater in the geological history are thought to
have profoundly affected biomineralization of marine invertebrates, including some …