Microbial Communities from Continental Sabkhas of Southern Tunisia: Terrestrial Analogues of Mars Evaporite
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TERRESTRIAL ANALOGUES OF MARS EVAPORITE ENVIRONMENTS. N. Stivaletta, R. Barbieri, M. Bosco, C.Picard, G.G. Ori, L. Marinangeli, 1 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Bologna, Bologna, P.zza Porta San Donato 1, 40126, Italy, [email protected], [email protected] 2 Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agroambientali, Area Microbiologia, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy. International Research School of Planetary Science, Università d’ Annunzio, Pescara, Italy.
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