It’s a trap!: Modern and ancient halite as Lagerstätten

Salt biostratigraphy: The Miocene palynological assemblages from the Wieliczka Formation, southern Poland

(2023) Gil Machado et al.   AAPG BULLETIN

A Mars-analog sulfate mineral, mirabilite, preserves biosignatures

(2023) Karena K. Gill et al.   GEOLOGY

830-million-year-old microorganisms in primary fluid inclusions in halite

(2022) Sara I. Schreder-Gomes et al.   GEOLOGY

FIRST REPORT OF FUNGAL PALYNOMORPHS FROM THE ZECHSTEIN GROUP (LOPINGIAN): IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STRATIGRAPHIC COMPLETENESS OF THE EARTH'S PALEOZOIC FUNGAL RECORD

(2022) MARTHA E. GIBSON   PALAIOS

Water Activities of Acid Brine Lakes Approach the Limit for Life

(2021) Kathleen C. Benison et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Microbiology of a NaCl stalactite ‘salticle’ in Triassic halite

(2021) Thomas P. Thompson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evaporite Palynology: a case study on the Permian (Lopgingian) Zechstein Sea

(2021) Martha E. Gibson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The use of spore–pollen assemblages to reconstruct vegetation changes in the Permian (Lopingian) Zechstein deposits of northeast England

(2021) Martha E. Gibson et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Tiny, glassy, and rapidly trapped: The nano-sized planktic diatoms in Messinian (late Miocene) gypsum

(2021) Luca Pellegrino et al.   GEOLOGY

0.25 Ga Salt Deposits Preserve Signatures of Habitable Conditions and Ancient Lipids

(2020) Charles S. Cockell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Biomarker records and mineral compositions of the Messinian halite and K–Mg salts from Sicily

(2019) Yuta Isaji et al.   Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

A thiotrophic microbial community in an acidic brine lake in Northern Chile

(2018) Lorena Escudero et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial communities and their predicted metabolic functions in a desiccating acid salt lake

(2018) Elena Zaikova et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Organic Matter of the Salt Sequence in the Southern Part of the Yakshinskoe Potassium–Magnesium Salt Deposit

(2018) S. N. Shanina et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL

Pollen in a perfect trap: the palynological record in Miocene gypsum

(2018) Ewa Durska   GRANA

Acid-saline-lake Systems of the Triassic Mercia Mudstone Group, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

(2018) Anna Sofia Andeskie et al.   JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH

Molecular biomarkers in the subsurface of the Salar Grande (Atacama, Chile) evaporitic deposits

(2018) Laura Sánchez-García et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Aspergillus penicillioidesdifferentiation and cell division at 0.585 water activity

(2017) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The complete genome of a viable archaeum isolated from 123-million-year-old rock salt

(2016) Salla T. Jaakkola et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A fluid inclusion record of magmatic/hydrothermal pulses in acid Salar Ignorado gypsum, northern Chile

(2016) F. J. Karmanocky et al.   GEOFLUIDS

Are the large filamentous microfossils preserved in Messinian gypsum colorless sulfide-oxidizing bacteria?

(2015) Francesco Dela Pierre et al.   GEOLOGY

Contrasting Siliciclastic-Evaporite Strata In Subsurface and Outcrop: An Example From the Permian Nippewalla Group of Kansas, U.S.A

(2015) K. C. Benison et al.   JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH

Characterization of Ancient DNA Supports Long-Term Survival of Haloarchaea

(2014) Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Multiplication of microbes below 0.690 water activity: implications for terrestrial and extraterrestrial life

(2014) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Could microorganisms be preserved in Mars gypsum? Insights from terrestrial examples

(2014) Kathleen Counter Benison et al.   GEOLOGY

Aspergillus penicillioides—a true halophile existing in hypersaline and polyhaline econiches

(2013) Sarita Nazareth et al.   ANNALS OF MICROBIOLOGY

Identification of Carotenoids in Ancient Salt from Death Valley, Saline Valley, and Searles Lake, California, Using Laser Raman Spectroscopy

(2013) Y.D. Winters et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Acidophilic Halophilic Microorganisms in Fluid Inclusions in Halite from Lake Magic, Western Australia

(2013) Amber J. Conner et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Acid saline fluid inclusions: examples from modern and Permian extreme lake systems

(2013) K. C. Benison   GEOFLUIDS

Extremely high temperatures and paleoclimate trends recorded in Permian ephemeral lake halite

(2013) James J. Zambito et al.   GEOLOGY

Raman spectroscopy in halophile research

(2013) Jan Jehlička et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Gypsum-Permineralized Microfossils and Their Relevance to the Search for Life on Mars

(2012) J. William Schopf et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Secondary halite deposits in the Iranian salt karst: general description and origin

(2011) Michal Filippi et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPELEOLOGY

DunaliellaCells in Fluid Inclusions in Halite: Significance for Long-term Survival of Prokaryotes

(2010) Brian A. Schubert et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Protection of chemolithoautotrophic bacteria exposed to simulated Mars environmental conditions

(2010) Felipe Gómez et al.   ICARUS

Molecular Analysis of the Microbial Communities of Mars Analog Lakes in Western Australia

(2009) Melanie R. Mormile et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Microscopic Identification of Prokaryotes in Modern and Ancient Halite, Saline Valley and Death Valley, California

(2009) Brian A. Schubert et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Climatic control on the growth of gigantic gypsum crystals within hypogenic caves (Naica mine, Mexico)?

(2009) Paolo S. Garofalo et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

HalophilicArchaeacultured from ancient halite, Death Valley, California

(2009) Brian A. Schubert et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Haloarchaeal diversity in 23, 121 and 419 MYA salts

(2009) J. S. PARK et al.   Geobiology

How do prokaryotes survive in fluid inclusions in halite for 30 k.y.?

(2009) B. A. Schubert et al.   GEOLOGY

Criteria for the recognition of acid-precipitated halite

(2009) ELLIOT A. JAGNIECKI et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Discovery of Abundant Cellulose Microfibers Encased in 250 Ma Permian Halite: A Macromolecular Target in the Search for Life on Other Planets

(2008) Jack D. Griffith et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

“Hairy Blobs:” Microbial Suspects Preserved in Modern and Ancient Extremely Acid Lake Evaporites

(2008) Kathleen C. Benison et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Chloride-Bearing Materials in the Southern Highlands of Mars

(2008) M. M. Osterloo et al.   SCIENCE