Origin of Miocene halite from Tuz Gölü basin in Central Anatolia, Turkey: Evidences from the pure halite and fluid inclusion geochemistry

Karakaya, Muazzez Çelik; Bozdağ, Ayla; Ercan, Hatice Ünal; Karakaya, Necati; Delikan, Arif

doi:10.1016/j.gexplo.2019.03.004

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“…Tuz Lake constitutes the Main Zone (a water body with a depth of about 70 cm in the spring) and a separate area of the lake, designated as the Deep Zone (a water body with a depth exceeding 100 cm in the spring), is found in the mid-east part of the main area of the lake [ 20 , 21 ]. In addition, on the shore of Tuz Lake, there are several salterns that are the major source for salt production in Turkey, estimated to meet 70% of the salt needs of this country [ 22 , 23 ]. Kayacik saltern, Kaldirim saltern, and Yavsan saltern are located in the mid-east, north-east, and western parts of the lake, respectively ( Figure 1 ).…”

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Prokaryotic Communities in the Thalassohaline Tuz Lake, Deep Zone, and Kayacik, Kaldirim and Yavsan Salterns (Turkey) Assessed by 16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing

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Prokaryotic communities and physico-chemical characteristics of 30 brine samples from the thalassohaline Tuz Lake (Salt Lake), Deep Zone, Kayacik, Kaldirim, and Yavsan salterns (Turkey) were analyzed using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and standard methods, respectively. Archaea (98.41% of reads) was found to dominate in these habitats in contrast to the domain Bacteria (1.38% of reads). Representatives of the phylum Euryarchaeota were detected as the most predominant, while 59.48% and 1.32% of reads, respectively, were assigned to 18 archaeal genera, 19 bacterial genera, 10 archaeal genera, and one bacterial genus that were determined to be present, with more than 1% sequences in the samples. They were the archaeal genera Haloquadratum, Haloarcula, Halorhabdus, Natronomonas, Halosimplex, Halomicrobium, Halorubrum, Halonotius, Halolamina, Halobacterium, and Salinibacter within the domain Bacteria. The genera Haloquadratum and Halorhabdus were found in all sampling sites. While Haloquadratum, Haloarcula, and Halorhabdus were the most abundant genera, two uncultured Tuz Lake Halobacteria (TLHs) 1 and 2 were detected in high abundance, and an additional uncultured haloarchaeal TLH-3 was found as a minor abundant uncultured taxon. Their future isolation in pure culture would permit us to expand our knowledge on hypersaline thalassohaline habitats, as well as their ecological role and biomedical and biotechnological potential applications.

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