Keywords: Biofilms Found Near Underwater Fresh Water Springs in the Dead Sea, 2012 (retouch).jpg springs in the Dead Sea approximately 1 8 km west of Mitzpe Shalem in 2010 by Ionescu et al and published in PLoS ONE on 5 June 2012 Top Small patches of thin white biofilms covered sediments adjacent to the water source in springs 1 “5 Middle Thick white biofilms covered sediments around spring 12 whereas top and bottom surfaces of rocks found within this spring were covered with green and white biofilms respectively Bottom Large white biofilms covered slopes below springs 10 and 11 at depths around 20 m 66 ft although no water seepage was detected Scale bar 20 cm 7 9 in Caption adapted from original <nowiki> See map of the springs </nowiki> thumb left 2014-02-19 00 36 50 Derived from a series of images published in Ionescu D Siebert C Polerecky L Munwes YY Lott C et al 2012 http //www plosone org/article/info 3Adoi 2F10 1371 2Fjournal pone 0038319 Microbial and Chemical Characterization of Underwater Fresh Water Springs in the Dead Sea PLoS ONE 7 6 e38319 doi http //dx doi org/10 1371/journal pone 0038319 10 1371/journal pone 0038319 TimofKingsland this modified version ; Danny Ionescu Christian Siebert Lubos Polerecky Yaniv Y Munwes Christian Lott Stefan Häusler Mina Bižić-Ionescu Christian Quast Jörg Peplies Frank Oliver Glöckner Alban Ramette Tino Rödiger Thorsten Dittmar Aharon Oren Stefan Geyer Hans-Joachim Stärk Martin Sauter Tobias Licha Jonathan B Laronne and Dirk de Beer original image 31 34 36 N 35 24 57 E File Biofilms Found Near Underwater Fresh Water Springs in the Dead Sea 2012 jpg Retouched picture cropped removed A B and C in top left corners of images with Photoshop's patch repair tool replaced black horizontal bars with white bars and fixed minor image placement errors in original TimofKingsland Biofilms Found Near Underwater Fresh Water Springs in the Dead Sea 2012 jpg cc-zero Uploaded with UploadWizard Biofilms Springs of the Dead Sea Underwater diving in Israel Underwater diving in the Palestinian territories |