September 2023

Bacteria and the release of potentially toxic elements Weathering processes are also associated with specific behaviors of bacteria. An example is the bacterium Pseudononas fluorescens, which, under weathering conditions, participates in the release of metallic elements and the formation of secondary minerals. This bacterium has the ability to secrete so-called siderophores, compounds with a high […]

We continue our series of recollections of expeditions by geologists from our Institute to distant lands Today we will go back to 1962, when young PhDs Jerzy Don and Marian Dumicz from the Department of Structural Geology and Geological Cartography conducted scientific research in Mongolia The later Professors then produced geological maps of the Great […]