"hairy blobs:" Microbial suspects preserved in modern and ancient extremely acid lake evaporites

Astrobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 807-821

  Benison, Kathleen C ^a   Jagniecki, Elliot A ^a   Edwards, Tina B ^a,d   Mormile, Melanie R ^b   Storrie Lombardi, Michael C ^c  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Kinohi Institute   (United States)

^d US Oil and Refining Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Acidophiles; Astrobiology; Exobiology; Halophiles; Life in acid saline environments; Microfossils

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SULFATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUSTRALIA; LASER; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; MICROSCOPY; PH; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES;

AUSTRALIA; CALCIUM SULFATE; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LASERS; MARS; MICROSCOPY, ULTRAVIOLET; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; UNITED STATES; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDOPHILES;

EID: 54049122286     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2006.0034     Document Type: Article

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