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Terrestrial Hot Spring Systems: Introduction.
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- Metagenomic insights into the microbial communities and functional traits of hot springs in Guizhou Province, China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Advances in Extremophile Research: Biotechnological Applications through Isolation and Identification Techniques.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Molecular diversity of green-colored microbial mats from hot springs of northern Japan.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2024Article
- Metagenomic analysis of hot spring soil for mining a novel thermostable enzybiotic.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Modern analogs for ammonia flux from terrestrial hydrothermal features to the Archean atmosphere.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Comparing microbial populations from diverse hydrothermal features in Yellowstone National Park: hot springs and mud volcanoes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Mining thermophiles for biotechnologically relevant enzymes: evaluating the potential of European and Caucasian hot springs.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2023Review
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- A metagenomic insight into the microbiomes of geothermal springs in the Subantarctic Kerguelen Islands.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Prokaryotes of renowned Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) thermal springs: phylogenetic and cultivation analysis.Environmental microbiome · 2022Article
- Raman spectroscopic peculiarities of Icelandic poorly crystalline minerals and their implications for Mars exploration.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The Evaluation of Bacterial Abundance and Functional Potentials in the Three Major Watersheds, Located in the Hot Spring Zone of the Tatun Volcano Group Basin, Taiwan.Microorganisms · 2022Article
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Abstract
This report reviews how terrestrial hot spring systems can sustain diverse and abundant microbial communities and preserve their fossil records. Hot springs are dependable water sources, even in arid environments. They deliver reduced chemical species and other solutes to more oxidized surface environments, thereby providing redox energy and nutrients. Spring waters have diverse chemical compositions, and their outflows create thermal gradients and chemical precipitates that sustain diverse microbial communities and entomb their remnants. These environments probably were important habitats for ancient benthic microbial ecosystems, and it has even been postulated that life arose in hydrothermal systems. Thermal spring communities are fossilized in deposits of travertine, siliceous sinter, and iron minerals (among others) that are found throughout the geological record back to the oldest known well-preserved rocks at 3.48 Ga. Very few are known before the Cenozoic, but it is likely that there are many more to be found. They preserve fossils ranging from microbes to trees and macroscopic animals. Features on Mars whose morphological and spectroscopic attributes resemble spring deposits on Earth have been detected in regions where geologic context is consistent with the presence of thermal springs. Such features represent targets in the search for evidence of past life on that planet.
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