Troll samples - SEM micro-photography and elemental mapping -

Oslo University.


Marble Slabs Endoliths


Troll: marble slabs - fully submerged
(1) submerged in the inlet pool -  no measured weight gain. (2 and 3)  slab with highest weight gain (note that scale in 1 and 3 are equal);
also not ethe diatom in (8)

(1) (2)  (3) 

(4)  (5)  (6)  (7)  (8) 
 

Troll: endolith from old terrace

Maps of Ca/Mg and Ca/Si on burried filament; Note the nice euhedral Cc overgrowing the biofilm - indicating that the film was trapped before the rock dried out
(1) (2)  (3) 
 

Maps of Si (green) occuring in trapped  - dead bio-layer (??) in travertine (pure Cc is pink) .
Growth direction: UP (North)
Si and Mg covary strongly but Si is easier to map due to more counts.
(1)  (2)