Great Salt Lake microbialites (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Great Salt Lake microbialites

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Exposed microbialites in the Great Salt Lake off the north end of Antelope Island. Utah biologists discovered nematodes living in these reef-life structures that cover about a fifth of the lakebed.

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Brian Maffly, University of Utah

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