Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Gavish Sabkha and Other Hypersaline Marine Sabkhas, Pools, and Lagoons

  • Chapter
Book cover Hypersaline Environments

Part of the book series: Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience ((BROCK/SPRINGER))

Abstract

Sea-marginal environments subject to hypersalinity include a variety of tidal flats and depressions, salt marshes, lagoons, and other physiographic features in which microorganisms thrive. Some of these environments are subject to extreme salinity variations and sometimes complete desiccation. In some cases, they offer the opportunity to study in a single basin the precipitation and diagenesis of a variety of evaporite minerals, and the potential biological and organic chemical interactions with those minerals. In other cases, they offer the opportunity to profile the biogeochemical attributes of a stage in the evolution of an evaporite basin. Both of these approaches are necessary for accurate interpretations of ancient marine evaporite deposits.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Aharon, P., Kolodny, Y., and Sass, E. 1977. Recent hot brine dolomitization in the “Solar Lake,” Gulf of Elat, isotopic, chemical, and mineralogical study. Journal of Geology 85: 27–48.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Bauld, J. 1984. Microbial mats in marginal marine environments: Shark Bay, Western Australia, and Spencer Gulf, South Australia, pp. 39–58 in Cohen, Y., Castenholz, R.W. and Halvorson, H.O. (editors), Microbial Mats: Stromatolites, MBL Lectures in Biology, vol. 3, Alan R. Liss, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Boon, J.J., Hines, H., Burlingame, A.L., Klok, J., Rijpstra, W.I., de Leeuw, J.W., Edmunds, K.E., and Eglinton, G. 1983. Organic geochemical studies of Solar Lake laminated cyanobacterial mats, pp. 207–227 in Bjørnoy, M. et al. (editors), Advances in Organic Geochemistry 1981, John Wiley and Sons, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Boon, J.J., de Leeuw, J.W., and Krumbein, W.E. 1985. Biogeochemistry of Gavish Sabkha sediments. II. Pyrolysis mass spectrometry of the laminated microbial mat in the permanently water-covered zone before and after the desert sheetflood of 1979, pp. 368–380 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Butler, G.P., Krouse, R.H., and Mitchell, R. 1973. Sulphur-isotope geochemistry of an arid, supratidal evaporite environment, Trucial Coast, pp. 453–462 in Purser, B.H. (editor), The Persian Gulf. Holocene Carbonate Sedimentation and Diagenesis in a Shallow Epicontinental Sea, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Copeland, B.J. 1967. Environmental characteristics of hypersaline lagoons. Texas University Contributions to Marine Science 12: 207–218.

    Google Scholar 

  • Copeland, B.J. and Jones, R.S. 1965. Community metabolism in some hypersaline waters. Texas Journal of Science 17: 188–205.

    Google Scholar 

  • de Leeuw, J.W., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Klok, J., Schenck, P.A., and Boon, J.J. 1985. Biogeochemistry of Gavish Sabkha sediments. I. Studies on neutral reducing sugars and lipid moieties by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, pp. 350–367 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors) Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Edmunds, K.L.H. and Eglinton, G. 1984. Microbial lipids and carotenoids and their early diagenesis in the Solar Lake laminated microbial mat sequence, pp. 343–389 in Cohen, Y., Castenholz, R.W. and Halvorson, H.O. (editors), Microbial Mats: Stromatolites, MBL Lectures in Biology, vol. 3, Alan R. Liss, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Erlich, A. and Dor, I. 1985. Photosynthetic microorganisms of the Gavish sabkha, pp. 296–321 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Friedman, G.M. 1985. Gulf of Elat (Aqaba). Geological and sedimentological framework, pp. 39–71 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors). 1985. Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha. Ecological Studies 53. Springer-Verlag. New York. 484 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Friedman, G.M., Sneh, A., and Owen, R.W. 1985. The Ras Muhammad Pool: implications for the Gavish Sabkha, pp. 218–237 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gaudette, H.E. and Lyons, W.B. 1984. Trace metal concentrations in modern marine sabkha sediments, pp. 425–434 in Cohen, Y., Castenholz, R.W. and Halvorson, H.O. (editors), Microbial Mats: Stromatolites, MBL Lectures in Biology, vol. 3, Alan R. Liss, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gavish, E., Krumbein, W.E., and Halevy, J. 1985. Geomorphology, mineralogy and groundwater geochemistry as factors of the hydrodynamic system of the Gavish system, pp. 186–217 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gerdes, G. and Krumbein, W.E. 1984. Animal communities in Recent potential stromatolites of hypersaline origin, pp. 59–83 in Cohen, Y., Castenholz, R.W. and Halvorson, H.O. (editors), Microbial Mats: Stromatolites, MBL Lectures in Biology, vol. 3, Alan R. Liss, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gerdes, G., Krumbein, W.E., and Holtkamp, E. 1985a. Salinity and water activity related zonation of microbial communities and potential stromatolites of the Gavish Sabkha, pp. 238–266 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gerdes, G., Spira, J., and Dimentan, C. 1985b. The fauna of the Gavish Sabkha and the Solar Lake—a comparative study, pp. 322–345 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Golubic, S. 1980. Halophily and halotolerance in cyanophytes. Origins of Life 10: 169–183.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Holser, W.T. and Kaplan, I.R. 1966. Isotope geochemistry of sedimentary sulfates. Chemical Geology 1: 93–135.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Holser, W.T., Javor, B., and Pierre, C. 1981. Geochemistry and ecology of salt pans at Guerrero Negro, Baja California Geological Society of America Cordilleran Section, 1981 Annual Meeting, Field Trip Number 1. 56 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Javor, B.J. 1979. Ecology, physiology and carbonate chemistry of blue-green algal mats, Laguna Guerrero Negro, Mexico Ph.D. Thesis, University of Oregon, Eugene. 260 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Javor, B.J. and Castenholz, R.W. 1981. Laminated microbial mats, Laguna Guerrero Negro, Mexico. Geomicrobiology Journal 2: 237–273.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Javor, B.J. and Castenholz, R.W. 1984. Productivity studies of microbial mats, Laguna Guerrero Negro, Mexico, pp. 149–170 in Cohen, Y., Castenholz, R.W. and Halvorson, H.O. (editors), Microbial Mats: Stromatolites, MBL Lectures in Biology, vol. 3, Alan R. Liss, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jørgensen, B.B. and Cohen, Y. 1977. Solar Lake (Sinai). 5. The sulfur cycle of the benthic cyanobacterial mats. Limnology and Oceanography 22: 657–666.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Kessel, M., Cohen, Y., and Walsby, A.E. 1985. Structure and physiology of square-shaped and other halophilic bacteria from the Gavish Sabkha, pp. 267–287 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Krumbein, W.E. 1985. Introduction and definitions, pp. 13–17 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kushnir, J. 1981. Formation and early diagenesis of varved evaporite sediments in a coastal hypersaline pool. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 51: 1193–1204.

    Google Scholar 

  • Long, D.T., Lyons, W.B., and Gaudette, H.E. 1985. Trace-metal concentrations in modern marine sabkhas. Chemical Geology 53: 185–189.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Lyons, W.B. and Gaudette, H.E. 1985. Trace metal concentrations in sediments from the Gavish Sabkha, pp. 346–349 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha. Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Phleger, F.B. 1969. A modern evaporite deposit in Mexico. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 53: 824–829.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Phleger, F.B. 1971. Reply. Ecology of a marine evaporite. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 55: 2040–2042.

    Google Scholar 

  • Phleger, F.B. and Ewing, G.C. 1962. Sedimentology and oceanography of coastal lagoons in Baja California, Mexico. Geological Society of America Bulletin 73: 145–182.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pierre, C. 1982. Teneurs en Isotopes Stables (18O, 2H, 13C, 34S) et Conditions de Genèse des Évaporites Marines: Application à Quelques Milieux Actuels et au Messinien de la Méditerranée. Ph.D. Thesis. Université de Paris-Sud, Centre d’Orsay. 266 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Purser, B.H. (editor). 1973. The Persian Gulf. Holocene Carbonate Sedimentation and Diagenesis in a Shallow Epicontinental Sea. Springer-Verlag. New York. 471 pp.

    Google Scholar 

  • Purser, B.H. Coastal evaporite systems, pp. 72–102 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schidlowski, M., Matzigkeit, U., Mook, W.G., and Krumbein, W.E. 1985. Carbon isotope geochemistry and 14C ages of microbial mats from Gavish Sabkha and the Solar Lake, pp. 381–401 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Skyring, G.W. 1984. Sulfate reduction in marine sediments associated with cyano-bacterial mats in Australia, pp. 265–275 in Cohen, Y., Castenholz, R.W. and Hal-vorson, H.O. (editors), Microbial Mats: Stromatolites, MBL Lectures in Biology, vol. 3, Alan R. Liss, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stoeckenius, W., Bivin, D., and McGinnis, K. 1985. Photoactive pigments in halo-bacteria from Gavish Sabkha, pp. 288–295 in Friedman, G.M. and Krumbein, W.E. (editors), Hypersaline Ecosystems. The Gavish Sabkha, Ecological Studies 53, Springer-Verlag, New York.

    Google Scholar 

  • Zenkevitch, L. 1963. Biology of the Seas of the U.S.S.R. George Allen and Unwin. London. 955 pp.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Barbara Javor
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1989 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Javor, B. (1989). Gavish Sabkha and Other Hypersaline Marine Sabkhas, Pools, and Lagoons. In: Hypersaline Environments. Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74370-2_16

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74370-2_16

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-642-74372-6

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-642-74370-2

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation