Microbial Communities in Sediments From Four Mildly Acidic Ephemeral Salt Lakes in the Yilgarn Craton (Australia) – Terrestrial Analogs to Ancient Mars

Microbial Communities in Sediments From Four Mildly Acidic Ephemeral Salt Lakes in the Yilgarn Craton (Australia) – Terrestrial Analogs to Ancient Mars

The Yilgarn Craton in Australia has a large number of naturally occurring shallow ephemeral lakes underlain by a dendritic system of paleodrainage channels. Processes like evaporation, flooding, erosion, as well as inflow of saline, often acidic and ion-rich groundwater contribute to the (dynamic) n...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joost W. Aerts, Rob J. M. van Spanning, Jessica Flahaut, Douwe Molenaar, Phil A. Bland, Matt J. Genge, Pascale Ehrenfreund, Zita Martins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Yilgarn Craton
microbial communities
16S sequencing
halophiles
Mars
geology
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00779/full

Similar Items

Similar Items