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PREFACE

¹ Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
² Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB, Canada R3T 2N2

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In this special issue of Mineralogical Magazine nine papers are presented that arose from the session ‘Minerals in Biological Systems’ at the Frontiers in Mineral Sciences conference organized by the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Mineralogical Society of America, the Mineralogical Association of Canada and Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie at Cambridge in June 2007. The aim of the session was to demonstrate the vital role, in more senses than one, that minerals play in a range of biological systems.

Most geoscientists recall those first- and second-year lectures on sedimentology and stratigraphy dealing with limestone. Very quickly the connection is made with fossils and life, then the second thought that might occur is how long this association has been going on – billions of years. . . . [Full Text of this Article]