Fig. 6: High-resolution characterisation of nanoscale organic preservational phenomena in Mosquito Creek Formation microbial mats. | Nature Communications

Fig. 6: High-resolution characterisation of nanoscale organic preservational phenomena in Mosquito Creek Formation microbial mats.

From: Aluminous phyllosilicates promote exceptional nanoscale preservation of biogeochemical heterogeneities in Archaean siliciclastic microbial mats

Fig. 6

A–C High-resolution TEM (HRTEM) images showing turbostratic organic materials preserved between illite (phyllosilicate particles). In (B), white arrows indicate organic materials and black arrows indicate illite particles (~1 nm interlayer spacing). D Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) spectra obtained from organic materials (1–2, C EELS spectra) and the phyllosilicate matrix (3, K EELS spectrum); spot size 3 nm.

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