Communications Earth & Environment (Jun 2022)
Discovery of the deep-sea NEOM Brine Pools in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
- Sam J. Purkis,
- Hannah Shernisky,
- Peter K. Swart,
- Arash Sharifi,
- Amanda Oehlert,
- Fabio Marchese,
- Francesca Benzoni,
- Giovanni Chimienti,
- Gaëlle Duchâtellier,
- James Klaus,
- Gregor P. Eberli,
- Larry Peterson,
- Andrew Craig,
- Mattie Rodrigue,
- Jürgen Titschack,
- Graham Kolodziej,
- Ameer Abdulla
Affiliations
- Sam J. Purkis
- CSL – Center for Carbonate Research, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- Hannah Shernisky
- CSL – Center for Carbonate Research, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- Peter K. Swart
- CSL – Center for Carbonate Research, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- Arash Sharifi
- CSL – Center for Carbonate Research, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- Amanda Oehlert
- CSL – Center for Carbonate Research, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- Fabio Marchese
- Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Francesca Benzoni
- Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Giovanni Chimienti
- Department of Biology and CoNISMA LRU, University of Bari Aldo Moro
- Gaëlle Duchâtellier
- CSL – Center for Carbonate Research, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- James Klaus
- CSL – Center for Carbonate Research, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- Gregor P. Eberli
- CSL – Center for Carbonate Research, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- Larry Peterson
- CSL – Center for Carbonate Research, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- Andrew Craig
- OceanX
- Mattie Rodrigue
- OceanX
- Jürgen Titschack
- MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
- Graham Kolodziej
- CIMAS, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- Ameer Abdulla
- NEOM
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00482-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 3,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
The sedimentary signals of climatic and tectonic events are preserved in pristine condition by the hypersaline environment within brine pools discovered by remote observations, and core and brine sampling, in the Gulf of Aqaba, off the Saudi Arabian coast