Microbial Surface Treatment of Sand with Sporosarcina pasteurii to Improve the Wind Erosion Resistance in Urmia Lake

Figure 8

SEM images of the Microbial treated sand (stable sand crust) at 52× (a), 250× (b), 1000× (c) and 1960× (d) magnifications. Images show the microbial-induced calcium carbonate bridges between the sand grains.

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