Evaporating Legacies: Industrial Heritage and Salt in Cheshire, Uk

Lageard, Jonathan G. A.; Drew, Ian B.

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“…The Cheshire salt district (UK) has an industrial heritage of salt production dating back to the Romans (first–second centuries AD) who excavated the land for its abundant salt-rock [1]. This industry was enabled by the Cheshire salt district’s location over subterranean Triassic salt deposits, which are currently still quarried in the Winsford salt mine and extracted via brine pumping at the Halford brine fields.…”

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“…This industry was enabled by the Cheshire salt district’s location over subterranean Triassic salt deposits, which are currently still quarried in the Winsford salt mine and extracted via brine pumping at the Halford brine fields. The deposits have also given rise to a few natural saline biotopes such as those present in Anderton, where surface-derived groundwater is in contact with salt-rock, forming brine which springs to the surface [1]. This process originates multiple interlocking brine pools which seasonally fluctuate in salinity (1.3–13 % NaCl, w/v) due to variation in rainfall, evaporation and drainage.…”

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Motilimonas cestriensis sp. nov., isolated from an inland brine spring in Northern England

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Antunes

2021

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

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A novel slightly halophilic Gram-stain-negative bacterial strain (MKS20T) was isolated from a brine sample collected from one of the Anderton brine springs in the Cheshire salt district, located in Northern England. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed a close proximity to Motilimonas eburnea (98.30 %), followed by Motilimonas pumila (96.62 %), the two currently described species within the genus Motilimonas . Strain MKS20T forms white-beige-pigmented colonies and grows optimally at 28–30 °C, in 1–3 % (w/v) NaCl and at pH 7–7.5. The strain was facultatively anaerobic and showed a broader range of carbohydrate use than other species in the genus Motilimonas . Q-8 was the sole respiratory quinone and the major fatty acids (>10 %) were summed feature 3 (C16 : 1 ω6c and/or C16 : 1 ω7c) and C16 : 0. The polar lipid profile included diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidyglycerol and several unidentified lipids. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 44.2 mol%. Average nucleotide identity and DNA–DNA hybridization data were consistent with assignment to a separate species. Based on the phylogenetic and genomic-based analyses, as well as physiological and biochemical characteristics, we propose that strain MKS20T (=DSM 109936T, MCCC 1K04071T) represents a new species of the genus Motilimonas , with the name Motilimonas cestriensis sp. nov.

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Motilimonas cestriensis sp. nov., isolated from an inland brine spring in Northern England

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Antunes

2021

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

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“…Anderton contains a series of interlocking brine springs that originate from subterranean Triassic evaporites exposed to groundwater that rises to the surface and gathers in local basins [17,18]. The Anderton Brine Springs undergo seasonal fluctuations in water level and salinity due to evaporation, drainage, rainfall, and their associated springs.…”

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Microbes from Brine Systems with Fluctuating Salinity Can Thrive under Simulated Martian Chemical Conditions

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Ramkissoon

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The waters that were present on early Mars may have been habitable. Characterising environments analogous to these waters and investigating the viability of their microbes under simulated martian chemical conditions is key to developing hypotheses on this habitability and potential biosignature formation. In this study, we examined the viability of microbes from the Anderton Brine Springs (United Kingdom) under simulated martian chemistries designed to simulate the chemical conditions of water that may have existed during the Hesperian. Associated changes in the fluid chemistries were also tested using inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES). The tested Hesperian fluid chemistries were shown to be habitable, supporting the growth of all of the Anderton Brine Spring isolates. However, inter and intra-generic variation was observed both in the ability of the isolates to tolerate more concentrated fluids and in their impact on the fluid chemistry. Therefore, whilst this study shows microbes from fluctuating brines can survive and grow in simulated martian water chemistry, further investigations are required to further define the potential habitability under past martian conditions.

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Relict Anthropogenic Ecosystem from the Middle Ages: History of a Salt Marsh from Transylvania (Sic, N Romania)

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Silye

Sümegi

et al. 2019

Environmental Archaeology

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Evaporating Legacies: Industrial Heritage and Salt in Cheshire, Uk

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Motilimonas cestriensis sp. nov., isolated from an inland brine spring in Northern England

Motilimonas cestriensis sp. nov., isolated from an inland brine spring in Northern England

Microbes from Brine Systems with Fluctuating Salinity Can Thrive under Simulated Martian Chemical Conditions

Relict Anthropogenic Ecosystem from the Middle Ages: History of a Salt Marsh from Transylvania (Sic, N Romania)

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