Dark Life Ecosystems - Natural and Anthropogenic Caves

Lower Kane Cave, WY, USA, for more info about Lower Kane Cave and other sulfidic caves, click here.

Precambrian sandstones and quartzite caves of the Chimantá Tepui caves in the Guyana Highland, Venezuela, images from the Aubrecht team, for more info:  Images from Aubrecht team;; Images from Audy team

Caves in India (images from S and R Baskar) - more more info, see review by Baskar et al. 2011. Cave geomicrobiology in India. In: The Stromatolites: Interaction of microbes with sediments. Eds. Joseph Seckbach and Vinod Tewari. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology

The Hardrock Laboratory Äspö, Sweden, for more info click here

Extremophilic Ecosystems

Saltern Ponds with square forming Archaea (images from R. Rossello-Mora, Spain)

Desert crusts and meteorites in Oman (for more info, click here)