FESEM micrographs of needle- like aragonite particles formed during whiting events.

FESEM micrographs of nanostructured manganese oxides, bixbyte (Mn2O3) and hausmannite (Mn3O4).

FESEM micrographs of heterotrophic protozoa showing the nanostructure shape of their lorica.

Crystal growth of rhombohedral calcite at the nanoscale.

Sampling of the recent sediments.

Sampling of the recent sediments.

Sampling of the recent sediments.

View on the Soline Channel, connection between the semi-enclosed Mljet Lakes and the open sea (Adriatic sea).

View on the Big Lake on the island of Mljet (Adriatic sea).

View on the Small Lake on the island of Mljet (Adriatic sea).

The Kuti lake in the Neretva delta plain (Adriatic sea).

Terra rosa is polygenetic soil with hematite and pedogenic kaolinte as authigenic nanomineral phases.

SEM image of terra rossa microaggregates from Novigrad profile. Dominant mineral phases in clay size fractions are well-crystalized kaolinite, pedogenic kaolinite and illitic material.

Vineyard on terra rossa at Monte Coronici location. Terra rossa is suitable substrate for cultivation of vines and olives.

Greenish-grey Cretaceous paleosol in Tri jezerca quarry.  Cretaceous paleosol consists dominantly of illitic materials and regularly and irregularly interstratified illite/smectite.

SEM image of illitic material on the aggregate surface of Cretaceous paleosol from Tri jezerca.