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Stone Decay by Plants and Animals

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Part of the book series: Applied Mineralogy ((MINERALOGY,volume 4))

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Plants and animals can attack stone to a large extent both by mechanical and by chemical action. While the action of higher plants may be both mechanical and chemical, bacteria, the lowest kind of life, attack by chemical means only. The biotic decay is very complex and this topic has been deplorably neglected in the past.

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Winkler, E.M. (1975). Stone Decay by Plants and Animals. In: Stone. Applied Mineralogy, vol 4. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-3819-9_8

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