Program for Session 17e

14:30	Keynote: How and Where on Earth Were and Are Carbonate Minerals Formed? Krumbein W
15:00	Invited: Carbonate Ooid Formation in a Modern Freshwater Lake: How Determinant is the Biological Role? Ariztegui D & Plee K
15:15	Precipitation of Low-Temperature Dolomite from an Anaerobic Microbial Consortium: The Role of Methanogenic Archaea Kenward P, Goldstein R, Gonzalez L & Roberts J
15:30	Invited: Study of Mineral-Microbe Assemblages Down to the nm-Scale in Carbonate Microbialites Benzerara K, Meibom A, Lopez-Garcia P, Kazmierczak J & Brown, Jr. GE
15:45	Invited: Biomineralization of the Iroko Tree (Milicia excelsa): How Does This Carbon Sink Work? Cailleau G, Braissant O & Verrecchia EP
16:00	Fungal Implication in Secondary Calcium Carbonate Accumulation in Soils and Caves Bindschedler S, Millière L, Cailleau G, Job D & Verrecchia EP
16:15	Microbial Diagenesis of Evaporitic Gypsum Baudrand M, Aloisi G, Lecuyer C, Rouchy J-M, Blanc-Valleron M-M, Aref MAM & Grossi V
16:30	The Distribution of Gold in Biogenic and Abiogenic Carbonates Reith F, Etschmann B, Brewe D, Vogt S & Brugger J
16:45	Ancient Polysaccharides in Chalk Pedersen C, Johnsson A, Nielsen J, Bechgaard K, Damager I & Stipp S

280	Bio-Mediated and Abiotic Dolomite Formation in Saline Lakes of the Northern Great Plains of Canada Last W & Ginn F
281	Cave Atmosphere; A Guide to Calcification and a Methane Sink Waring C, Griffith D, Wilson S & Hurry S