Dallol Geothermal Area – Danakil Depression; Northern Afar Region, Ethopia

 

Image:  Dallol, Ethiopia by Ji-Elle on Wikimedia Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

 

Selected Research Articles:

Hyperdiverse archaea near life limits at the polyextreme geothermal Dallol Area (BELILLA et al., 2019)

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/06/03/658211.full.pdf

Ultra-small microorganisms in polyextreme conditions of the Dallol volcano, Northern Afar, Ethiopia (GÓMEZ et al., 2019)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44440-8.pdf

A Polyextreme Hydrothermal System controlled by Iron:  the Case of Dallol at the Afar Triangle (KOTOPOULOU et al., 2018)

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.8b00141

The Dallol Geothermal Area, Northern Afar (Ethiopia) – An Exceptional Planetary Field Analog on Earth (CAVALAZZI et al., 2019)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6459281/pdf/ast.2018.1926.pdf

Surface Exploration and First Conceptual Model of the Dallol Geothermal Area, Northern Afar, Ethiopia (FRANZSON et al., 2015)

https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/db/WGC/papers/WGC/2015/11043.pdf

 

Image:  Dallol-2001 by Hervé STHIOUL on Wikimedia Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en