Brine: genesis and sustainable resource recovery worldwide

C Liu, TK Lowenstein, A Wang… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Brine contains cations such as K+, Ca2+, Na+, Mg2+, Li+, B3+, Rb2+, and Cs2+, as well as
anions such as SO4 2−, Cl−, HCO3−, CO3 2−, NO3−, Br−, and I−, which are valuable …

Microbiology of the Red Sea (and other) deep‐sea anoxic brine lakes

A Antunes, DK Ngugi, U Stingl - Environmental microbiology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The Red Sea harbours approximately 25 deep‐sea anoxic brine pools. They
constitute extremely unique and complex habitats with the conjugation of several extreme …

Review and new aspects concerning the formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels

EJ Rohling - Marine Geology, 1994 - Elsevier
In this paper, it is proposed that the formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels occurred
in an anti-estuarine type of circulation, which was to some degree weakened relative to the …

[PDF][PDF] The geological evolution of the Tyrrhenian Sea: An introduction to the scientific results of ODP Leg 107

KA Kastens, J Mascle - Proceedings of the ocean drilling program …, 1990 - academia.edu
The goal of this chapter is to integrate old and new data from the Tyrrhenian Sea into an
internally consistent, chronologically ordered, interdisciplinary story that can serve as an …

Stratified prokaryote network in the oxic–anoxic transition of a deep-sea halocline

D Daffonchio, S Borin, T Brusa, L Brusetti… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
The chemical composition of the Bannock basin has been studied in some detail,. We
recently showed that unusual microbial populations, including a new division of Archaea …

Discovery and chemical composition of the eastmost deep-sea anoxic brine pools in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

B Herut, M Rubin-Blum, G Sisma-Ventura… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Deep-sea anoxic brine pools are unique and extreme, yet habitable environments.
However, their extent and processes of formation are not fully understood. Using …

Oxygen isotope and sapropel stratigraphy in the eastern Mediterranean during the last 3.2 million years

D Kroon, I Alexander, M Little, LJ Lourens… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - era.ed.ac.uk
Stable oxygen isotope data from four holes drilled at the Ocean Drilling Program Site 967,
which is located on the lower northern slope of the Eratosthenes Seamount, provide a …

Microbial diversity of the brine-seawater interface of the Kebrit Deep, Red Sea, studied via 16S rRNA gene sequences and cultivation methods

W Eder, LL Jahnke, M Schmidt… - Applied and …, 2001 - Am Soc Microbiol
The brine-seawater interface of the Kebrit Deep, northern Red Sea, was investigated for the
presence of microorganisms using phylogenetic analysis combined with cultivation …

The marine environment: present and past

EJ Rohling, R Abu-Zied, JSL Casford… - … geography of the …, 2009 - books.google.com
The Mediterranean is a landlocked, semi-enclosed marginal sea that spans a maximum of
3,860 km in the west–east direction, and a maximum of∼ 1, 600 km in the north–south …

Exploring deep-sea brines as potential terrestrial analogues of oceans in the icy moons of the outer solar system

A Antunes, K Olsson-Francis, TJ McGenity - Current issues in molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Several icy moons of the outer solar system have been receiving considerable attention and
are currently seen as major targets for astrobiological research and the search for life …