Discovery of the deep-sea NEOM Brine Pools in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
Discovery of the deep-sea NEOM Brine Pools in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
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Purkis, Sam J. , Shernisky, Hannah , Swart, Peter K. , Sharifi, Arash , Oehlert, Amanda , Marchese, Fabio , Benzoni, Francesca , Chimienti, Giovanni , Duchâtellier, Gaëlle , Klaus, James , Eberli, Gregor P. , Peterson, Larry , Craig, Andrew , Rodrigue, Mattie , Titschack, Jürgen , Kolodziej, Graham and Abdulla, Ameer
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London: Nature Publishing Group
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Deep-sea brine pools represent hypersaline environments famed for their extremophile microbes. With anoxia entirely excluding bioturbating megafauna, brine pools are also conducive to the pristine preservation of sedimentary sequences. Here we use bathymetric and geophysical observations to locate a complex of brine pools in the Gulf of Aqaba consi...
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Discovery of the deep-sea NEOM Brine Pools in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
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2662-4435
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2662-4435
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10.1038/s43247-022-00482-x
