Figure 1.
Still images and sampling of the study sites. Three microbial mats, Mat1-3, (A–D), two active barite chimneys, BaCh1 (E,F) and BaCh2 (A) and an inactive barite silica chimney, SiCh (G,H) were sampled.
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