Origin, distribution, and significance of brine in the subsurface of Antarctica

TD Frank, EMK Haacker, CR Fielding, M Yang - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Brine formed through the cryogenic concentration of seawater remains one of the least
understood components of Earth's cryosphere. Cryogenic brine is a prominent feature of the …

Tracing hydrothermal mineral thenardite in geysers/hot springs of North-western Himalayan belt, Ladakh Geothermal Province, India by hydrogeochemistry, fluid …

A Dutta, P Mishra, A Absar, VP Malviya, PK Singh… - Geochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study highlights the first evidence of hydrothermal mineral Thenardite (Na 2 SO
4) from Puga geothermal area, North-western Himalayan belt in Ladakh Geothermal …

Cryogenic brines as diagenetic fluids: Reconstructing the diagenetic history of the Victoria Land Basin using clumped isotopes

PT Staudigel, S Murray, DP Dunham, TD Frank… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
The isotopic analyses (δ 13 C, δ 18 O, and Δ 47) of carbonate phases recovered from a core
in McMurdo Sound by ANtarctic geologic DRILLing (ANDRILL-2A) indicate that the majority …

Sulfate-rich spring seeps and seasonal formation of terraced, crystalline mirabilite mounds along the shores of Great Salt Lake, Utah: Hydrologic and chemical …

EA Jagniecki, MDV Berg, ES Boyd, DT Johnston… - Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract As Great Salt Lake (GSL) elevation declined below∼ 1278.6 m (4195 ft) beginning
in the fall of 2019, crystalline mounds formed on the southeastern shore, near Great Salt …

Water abundance of dunes in Gale crater, Mars from active neutron experiments and implications for amorphous phases

TSJ Gabriel, C Hardgrove, S Czarnecki… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We report the water abundance of Bagnold Dune sand in Gale crater, Mars by analyzing
active neutron experiments using the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons instrument. We report a …

Visible to near-infrared reflectance and Raman spectra of evaporites from sulfate-chloride Mars analogue brines

EB Hughes, MS Gilmore, PE Martin, M Eleazer - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
While much attention has been given to the identification and characterization of single-
phase salts on Mars, relatively little has been applied to mixed evaporative assemblages …

What we know and still not know about oceanic salts

W Voigt - Pure and Applied Chemistry, 2015 - degruyter.com
The term oceanic salts concerns the salts, which can be formed from solutions containing
the major ions of seawater, that is the hexary system Na+, K+, Mg++, Ca++, Cl–, SO4––H2O …

Antarctic salt-cones: An oasis of microbial life? The example of Boulder Clay Glacier (northern Victoria Land)

M Azzaro, M Papale, C Rizzo, E Forte, D Lenaz… - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
The evaporation of a localized, highly saline water body of the Boulder Clay debris-covered
glacier, in the Northern Victoria Land, probably generated the accumulation of mirabilite …

Late Holocene climate variation on the northern Tibetan Plateau inferred from Lake Ayakum

Y Wang, X Liu, L Han, Z Ni, X Ma, Y Wei, Z Li - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding late Holocene climate variation on the northern Tibetan Plateau is essential
for understanding regional climate dynamics, especially the potential response to mid …

The Haloarchaea of Great Salt Lake as models for potential extant life on Mars

M Bayles, BC Belasco, AJ Breda… - Extremophiles as …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Expansive evaporite mineral deposits and other geological features on Mars are evidence of
ancient lacustrine systems before the planet experienced global climatic change (~ 3.5 Gya) …