Abstract
Organisms belonging to a 34,000-year-old microbial ecosystem within brine-filled inclusions from subsurface halite crystals dating to the Pleistocene Epoch thrive once extracted, according to geomicrobiologists Tim K. Lowenstein, Brain A. Schubert, and Michael N. Timofeeff from the State University of New York (SUNY) in Binghamton. The halite samples, obtained from cores taken from the Death Valley region of California, are the first that appear to encapsulate an ancient but partially living microbial ecosystem. Details appear in the January 2011 GSA Today (21:4–9).
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