Camille Thomas, @camthomas.bsky.social Profile picture
He/Him, Geomicrobiologist, rock licker, team player, first-gen, ally, father. Co-founder of @sedimentologika https://t.co/gEucNc0YHY
Mar 6 36 tweets 14 min read
New paper published in @AGU_GCubed :

Here is a summary of a work that started during the pandemic and led me towards new techniques and new collaborations, and a fun story to tell
#arsenic #DeadSea #geobiology @snsf_ch @unige_enagupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… It started with fieldwork by the Dead Sea shores, where sinkholes are formed by the circulation of fresher water in the evaporitic subsurface. The lake retreats by ca. 1m/year, leaving halite and gypsum that can be readily dissolved. A lot of springs emerge in those systems 2/n drone photo of circular sinkholes along the shore of the hypersaline lake the Dead Sea. White lines follow the lake shore showing ancient lake levels where halite has been deposited