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Microbial and Physical Sedimentary Structures in the Tidal Flats of Khor Al-Zubair, NW of Arabian Gulf

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This present study deals with the microbial sedimentary structures which are mainly induced by the cyanobacteria in the tidal flats of Khor Al-Zubair, northwest of the Arabian Gulf. There are three types of sedimentary structures in the area: (i) physical genetics, (ii) biological genetics, and (iii) biophysical genetics. The last one represents the microbial-induced sedimentary structure appeared in ten forms, which led to increasing of tidal flats resistance to erosion process and concentrating the coarse-grain sizes that accompanied with these structures. The identification of cyanobacteria shows five genera, four of them are filamentous, Microcoleus sp., Lyngbya spp., Oscillatoria spp., and Schizothrix sp., while the other is coccoid Aphanothece sp.

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The authors would like to thanks College of Science, the University of Basrah for funding this work, thanks also to Dr. Nedaa Al-Mussawy from biology department/the University of Basrah, Iraq, for her help in the identifications of cyanobacteria, and to Dr. Adel Albadran from Environmental Agency-Essex, UK for reading the manuscript and his comments.

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Albadran, B.N., Al-Kaaby, L.F. (2021). Microbial and Physical Sedimentary Structures in the Tidal Flats of Khor Al-Zubair, NW of Arabian Gulf. In: Jawad, L.A. (eds) The Arabian Seas: Biodiversity, Environmental Challenges and Conservation Measures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51506-5_12

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