Oxytropidoceras Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 Strange 'martian' mineral mounds rise up from Utah's Great Salt Lake By Tom Metcalfe https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/rare-salt-formations-appear-along-the-great-salt-lake/2020/01/10/5b581e9c-33e5-11ea-971b-43bec3ff9860_story.html https://www.space.com/martian-mineral-mounds-rise-utah-salt-lake.html https://www.lite1065.com/2020/01/16/rare-martian-mineral-mounds-appear-in-utahs-great-salt-lake/ What rare environmental mounds at Great Salt Lake could teach us about Mars. Utah geologists document spring mounds for first time By Amy Joi O'Donoghue, Deseret News, January 7, 2020 https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/1/7/21055472/great-salt-lake-rare-environmental-mounds-could-teach-us-about-mars Other publications: Schubert, B.A., Lowenstein, T.K. and Timofeeff, M.N., 2009. Microscopic identification of prokaryotes in modern and ancient halite, Saline Valley and Death Valley, California. Astrobiology, 9(5), pp.467-482. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.714.5959&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/14ac/33a1fb626040f3019947bfe95903ebe46d99.pdf Yours, Paul H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scylla Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 This is from 2001. Bacteria found in salt is old. 250 million years old https://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/fulltext/S0966-842X(00)01926-0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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