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L'Atalante basin

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Fusi, Nicoetta; de Larderel, Giovanni Aloisi; Borelu, Ada; Amelio, Ottavio; Castradori, Davide; Negri, Alessandra; Rimoldi, Bianca; Sanvoisin, Rossella; Tarbini, Paola; Cita, Maria B (1996).
161:(about 8 times that of ordinary seawater), which prevents it from mixing with the oxygenated waters above; therefore, it is completely anoxic. The approximately 1.5 m (5 ft) 143:
depressions about 3,000 m (9,800 ft) deep. L'Atalante is the smallest of the three; its surface begins at about 3,500 m (11,500 ft) below sea level.
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Yakimov, Michail M; La Cono, Violetta; Denaro, Renata; D'Auria, Giuseppe; Decembrini, Franco; Timmis, Kenneth N.; Golyshin, Peter N.; Giuliano, Laura (2007).
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are found only in the halocline zone. No group of organisms manages to prosper in all three zones. In the brine, there are fewer cells;
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Alexander, Eva; Stock, Alexandra; Breiner, Hans-Werner; Behnke, Anke; Bunge, John; Yakimov, Michail M.; Stoeck, Thorsten (2009).
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The dark gray anoxic sediments at the bottom of L'Atalante lake are covered with a 1 cm (0.4 in) loose black layer.
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from the brine but cannot function without some oxygen. Members of archaeal anaerobic methane oxidizers group 1 (ANME-1) and
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phylum, were discovered living in the sediment, the first multicellular lifeforms known to live entirely without oxygen.
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involved in its discovery in 1993. L'Atalante and its neighbors the Urania and Discovery deep hyper saline
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Sass, Andrea M; McKew, Boyd A; Sass, Henrik; Fichte, Jörg; Timmis, Kenneth N; McGenity, Terry J (2008).
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Danovaro R, Dell'anno A, Pusceddu A, Gambi C, Heiner I, Kristensen RM (April 2010).
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Anoxic hypersaline brine basin at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea
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found in the sediments are almost all (90%) various species of
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The L'Atalante basin's salinity is near saturation at 365
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about 192 km (119 mi) west of the island of
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Index

L'Atalante basin is located in Mediterranean
35°11′N 21°25′E / 35.18°N 21.41°E / 35.18; 21.41
hypersaline
brine lake
Mediterranean Sea
Crete
oceanographic
research vessels
anoxic basins
Messinian evaporite
Mediterranean Ridge
abyssal
halocline
brine
archaeal
chemoautotrophs
ammonia
haloarchaea
extremophiles
hydrothermal vent
euryarchaeota
Methanohalophilus
Pseudomonadota
Eukaryotes
ciliates
dinoflagellates
choanoflagellates
Microbes
Bacillus
metazoan

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