By using a non-invasive electron beam, SEM creates images of both high resolution and high magnification at the same time. These analyses provide detailed information about morphology, microstructure or elemental composition of samples.
For over 70 years, the Roman Kozłowski Institute of Paleobiology has been conducting in-depth studies of the history of life on Earth. Every year, the Institute publishes dozens of peer-reviewed articles, organizes conferences, foreign expeditions and excavations in new paleontological sites. We educate PhD students, publish the best paleontological journal in Poland (Acta Palaeontologica Polonica) and popularize science. The staff and laboratories are open to cooperation with other research centers and interdisciplinary projects. An essential part of our Institute is the Paleontological Collection, gathering the largest fossil collections in Poland (hundreds of thousands of specimens), partly exhibited in the Museum of Evolution.
Despite their limited surface area, fjords play a disproportionately large role in the global organic carbon cycle. Those in the remote regions of the Southern Ocean are particularly poorly understood.
Colombellinidae was a family of small marine snails that inhabited warm shallow seas during the Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous. This extinct group was revised based on all known fossils. The family included only two genera. Additionally, a new species from Bulgaria was described.
Research conducted on Seymour Island has shown that stalked crinoids continuously inhabited the shallow seas of Antarctica from the Late Cretaceous through the Paleogene.
The echinoderm skeleton has a remarkable microstructure known as stereom. It is composed of calcitic trabeculae with curvatures close to “saddle-shaped” forms, characteristic of minimal surfaces, whose classical physical model is soap films stretched across wire frames, and whose mathematical example is the catenoid.
Shells of marine gastropods from hydrothermal vent environments are coated with inorganic materials of unknown composition. Conversely, their fossil equivalents are known exclusively from outer moulds in pyrite (FeS2), with no shell material left.
Methane (CH4) is largely built from the light carbon isotope (12C). When emitted from the seabed, methane is oxidized by sediment-dwelling microorganisms, with one of the byproducts being methanogenic carbonate cements, themselves with large amounts of the 12C.
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