Abstract
Hazen and Roedder touch on several geological issues raised by our limited description of the Permian Salado Formation. In our study, we sampled coarse halite in dissolution pipes for testing for viable Permian-age bacteria.
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Powers, D., Vreeland, R. & Rosenzweig, W. How old are bacteria from the Permian age?. Nature 411, 155–156 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35075665
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