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Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake, Utah

Photo credit: Regent's Professor Emeritus Dean Blinn, NAU

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Potash

Potash leaching operation north of Moab, Utah

Photocredit: Dr. Michael Collier, MD

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Surface salt deposit adjacent to Salt Creek, Lincoln, Nebraska

Surface salt deposit adjacent to Salt Creek, Lincoln, Nebraska

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Collecting surface salt at Salt Creek, Lincoln, Nebraska

Collecting surface salt at Salt Creek, Lincoln, Nebraska

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Salt Pillars

Salt Pillars, Dead Sea, Israel

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Close up of surface salt deposit at Salt Creek, Lincoln, Nebraska Close up of surface salt deposit at Salt Creek, Lincoln, Nebraska

 

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

California Halite

Halite collected in California. Note the pink layer at the surface where extreme halophiles and other organisms deposited.

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

San Francisco Bay

Leslie Salt solar evaporation ponds, South Bay San Francisco, California

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Salt Seep at the Grand Canyon

Salt seep at mile 62L in the Grand Canyon. The Colorado River is at the bottom.

Photocredit: Dr. Larry Stevens

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Salt deposit at the Grand Canyon

Salt deposit at mile 60L in the Grand Canyon.

Photocredit: Dr. Larry Stevens

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Halite from the salt deposit at mile 60L in the Grand Canyon.

Photocredit: Dr. Larry Stevens

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Guerrero Negro, Mexico

Raw salt, Guerrero Negro, Mexico.

Photocredit: Diversa, Inc

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Deep Springs

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Deep Springs Close-up

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Deep subsurface samples

Samples from the deep subsurface.

1 and 2: 2,671 meters, Rotsalinar formation (Upper Triassic)

3: 2,451 meters, Rotsalinar formation (Upper Triassic)

4: 1,108 meters, Zechstein formation (Upper Permian)

5: 2,656 meters, Zechstein formation (Upper Permian)

6: 1,935 meters, Zechstein formation (Upper Permian)

7: 460 meters, Werra-Steinsalz (Zechstein I) formation (Upper Permian)

8: 675 meters, Rotliegendes Salinar formation (Lower Permian)

9: 1,300 meters, Zechstein (Upper Permian) - a rare sample with salt rocks embedded in red clay

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Halocin activity assay

Two-fold serial dilutions to extinction of a concentrated culture supernatant from Halobacterium spp. GN101 plated (10 ml) on a lawn of Halobacterium salinarum NRC817.  The reciprocal of the extinction dilution is the activity level in arbitrary units (AU).

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

A4-sulfolobus

Inhibition of Sulfolobus solfataricus by halocin A4

Photocredit: Dr. Paul Blum, Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Tripartite tree "Universal" unrooted phylogenetic tree based on 16S/18S rRNA sequences

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Hmed Arrhenius plot Arrhenius plot of Haloferax mediterranei R4 (ATCC 33500)

Resolution: (Low) (Med) (High)

Last updated: 07/23/2001