File:Underwater Fresh Water Springs in the Dead Sea, 2012.jpg

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English: Four photographs of a series of underwater fresh water springs found in the Dead Sea, approximately 1.8 km west of Mitzpe Shalem, in 2010 by Ionescu, et al, and published in PLoS ONE on 5 June 2012. One photograph (D) shows previously unknown biofilms living in association with the springs.

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A) Lamination on the walls of the shafts created by the springs in the northern system.

B) An example of a single water source out of several at the bottom of a shaft in the northern system.

C) An example of an in-shaft cavity from which water springs out.

D) Cobble covered spring in the southern system. Biofillms are visible on the cobble.

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Source Ionescu D, Siebert C, Polerecky L, Munwes YY, Lott C, et al. (2012) Microbial and Chemical Characterization of Underwater Fresh Water Springs in the Dead Sea. PLoS ONE 7(6): e38319. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038319
Author Danny Ionescu, Christian Siebert, Lubos Polerecky, Yaniv Y. Munwes, Christian Lott, Stefan Häusler, Mina Bižić-Ionescu, Christian Quast, Jörg Peplies, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Alban Ramette, Tino Rödiger, Thorsten Dittmar, Aharon Oren, Stefan Geyer, Hans-Joachim Stärk, Martin Sauter, Tobias Licha, Jonathan B. Laronne, and Dirk de Beer
Camera location31° 34′ 36″ N, 35° 24′ 57″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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