#anhydrite — Public Fediverse posts
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Researchers Find Bacterial Communities Deep Beneath the Atacama https://eos.org/articles/researchers-find-bacterial-communities-deep-beneath-the-atacama
Persistent microbial communities in #hyperarid subsurface habitats of the #Atacama Desert: Insights from intracellular DNA analysis https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/4/pgae123/7646996
"they proposed that the #microbes rely on water generated by the mineralogical change from #gypsum to #anhydrite. This change indeed leaves some amount of water in the environment and this water could be used by the #bacteria."