Summary The Salar Grande in the Coastal Range of Northern Chile is a fossil evaporitic
basin filled with almost pure halite (95% NaCl average). It is assumed that the basin has not …

Halite crystals were selected from a 186 m subsurface core taken from the Badwater salt
pan, Death Valley, California to ascertain if halophilic Archaea and their associated 16S …

We investigated the phylogenetic diversity and community structure of members of the
halophilic Archaea (order Halobacteriales) in five distinct sediment habitats that experience …

Halophilic Archaea cultured from ancient fluid inclusions in a 90‐m‐long (0‐to 100 000‐year‐
old) salt core from Death Valley, California, demonstrate survival of bacterial cells in …

Halophilic archaebacteria (haloarchaea) thrive in environments with salt concentrations
approaching saturation, such as natural brines, the Dead Sea, alkaline salt lakes and …

Samples were taken from the Winsford salt mine in Cheshire, England, which exploits
bedded deposits from the Triassic Period (195–225 million years ago, MYA) and from …

Prokaryotic diversity in Alpine salt sediments was investigated by polymerase chain reaction
(PCR) amplification of 16S rRNA genes, sequencing of cloned products, and comparisons …

Recent reports have described the isolation and analysis of living microbes and/or DNA
fragments from halite crystals of significant geological age. This manuscript describes the …

The archaeal community in a sulfide-and sulfur-rich spring with a stream water salinity of 0.7
to 1.0% in southwestern Oklahoma was studied by cloning and sequencing of 16S rRNA …

Subterranean salt deposits are the remains of ancient hypersaline waters that presumably
supported dense populations of halophilic microorganisms including representatives of the …