Establishing accurate palaeo-hydroclimatic reconstructions from lacustrine and marine archives is a long-standing challenge in palaeoenvironment studies. Closed-basin evaporites, especially halite, record episodes of extremely arid conditions during rapid climate change. However, the complex limnological behaviour deep hypersaline water bodies stochastic nature hydroclimatic regime its variatio...

Koehler, G.D., Chipley, D. and Kyser, T.K., 1991. Measurement of the hydrogen and oxygen isotopic compositions of concentrated chloride brines and brines from fluid inclusions in halite. Chem. Geol. (Isot. Geosci. Sect.), 94: 45-54. Solutions of l-5 m NaCI, KCl, CaC12 and MgC12, and synthetic brines were analyzed for hydrogen and oxygen isotopic compositions by vacuum distillation-microequilibr...

Cells of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which were genetically modified to produce green fluorescent protein, were entrapped in fluid inclusions in laboratory-grown halite. The bacteria were used to inoculate NaCl-saturated aqueous solutions, which were allowed to evaporate and precipitate halite. The number, size, and distribution of fluid inclusions were highly variable, but did not ap...

The 1 km thick evaporitic Permian Zechstein group in the Netherlands is subdivided into 5 halite rich sequences including K–Mg salts (polyhalite, kieserite, sylvite, carnallite and bischofite) for which position stratigraphy still poorly constrained. Understanding repartition of especially important development salt caverns require a as pure possible halite. By compiling well log seismic data o...

Abstract Primary fluid inclusions in bedded halite from the 830-m.y.-old Browne Formation of central Australia contain organic solids and liquids, as documented with transmitted light ultraviolet–visible (UV-vis) petrography. These objects are consistent size, shape, fluorescent response cells prokaryotes eukaryotes compounds. This discovery shows that microorganisms saline depositional environ...

The hydrothermal diamond-anvil cell (HDAC) was employed as a pressurized fluid inclusion heating stage to determine temperatures of phase transitions in synthetic fluid inclusions in quartz. Using this technique, the common problem of decrepitation or stretching of inclusions having high internal pressures was eliminated. Homogenization temperatures of pure H2O synthetic inclusions determined i...