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Fracture Mitigation Strategies in Gastropod Shells

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For hundreds of millions of years, gastropods have been evolving, modifying their external calcified shells for defense against shell-breaking and drilling predators. They have evolved primarily to use two different aragonitic microstructures: the evolutionary older Nacre (mother of pearl) structure and the more recently developed crossed-lamellar structure. By using both of these structures, gastropods are able to produce shells that are significantly tougher then geologic aragonite. However, the crossed-lamellar structure allows for a wider variety of shell morphologies, ensuring its increasing presence since the Mesozoic Marine Revolution more than 200 million years ago.

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Salinas, C., Kisailus, D. Fracture Mitigation Strategies in Gastropod Shells. JOM 65, 473–480 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-013-0570-y

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