The Mediterranean Accretionary Ridge is formed along the rifted margins of Northern Africa and the subducting margins of Southern Europe. This area contains one of the world’s highest abundance of unique geological features called deep-sea hypersaline anoxic lakes (DHALs). Since the discovery of the first Mediterranean DHAL Tyro in 1983, six other salt-related structures have been unveiled in this area in the last decades: l’Atalante, Bannock, Discovery, Medee, Thetis, and Urania, and the existence of many other DHALs has been speculated (Medriff Consortium 1995) (Fig. 1).
Location of the deep-sea anoxic hypersaline lakes (DHALs) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
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Yakimov, M.M., La Cono, V., Ferrer, M., Golyshin, P.N., Giuliano, L. (2013). Metagenomics of Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_36-1
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