A study in blue : Secondary copper-rich minerals and their associated bacterial diversity in Icelandic lava tubes

• Published in: Earth and Space Science
• Main Authors: Kopacz, Nina, Csuka, Joleen Mary, Baqué, Mickael, Iakubivskyi, Iaroslav, Guðlaugardóttir, Hrefna, Klarenberg, Ingeborg J., Ahmed, Mahid, Zetterlind, Alexandra, Singh, Abhijeet, Kate, Inge L. ten, Hellebrand, Eric, Stockwell, Brent, Stefánsson, Árni B., Vilhelmsson, Oddur, Neubeck, Anna, Schnürer, Anna, Geppert, Wolf
• Other Authors: Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resource Sciences, School of Business and Science
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Jarðefni; Gerlar; Hraun; astrobiology; Iceland; lava tubes; Mars; Martian analogs; speloethems; Environmental Science (miscellaneous); Earth and Planetary Sciences (all); Akureyri; Strauss; University of Akureyri
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/4528; https://doi.org/10.1029/2022ea002234

Funding Information: The Icelandic Speleological Society (ISS) was indispensable to this work, with in-depth knowledge of the terrain, and by doing their best to keep these caves in their pristine states by protecting them from human contamination by tourists or civilians, which is vital when collec...