Discovery of Afifi, the shallowest and southernmost brine pool reported in the Red Sea

The previously uncharted Afifi brine pool was discovered in the eastern shelf of the southern Red Sea. It is the shallowest brine basin yet reported in the Red Sea (depth range: 353.0 to 400.5 m). It presents a highly saline (228 g/L), thalassohaline, cold (23.3 °C), anoxic brine, inhabited by the b...

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Autores principales: Duarte, Carlos M., Røstad, Anders, Michoud, Grégoire, Barozzi, Alan, Merlino, Giuseppe, Delgado-Huertas, Antonio, Hession, Brian C., Mallon, Francis L., Afifi, Abdulakader M., Daffonchio, Daniele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6976674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31969577
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57416-w

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6976674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31969577
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57416-w

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