Figure 1
From: The discovery of Lake Hephaestus, the youngest athalassohaline deep-sea formation on Earth
Locations of all nine deep-sea brine lakes currently known to exist within the Mediterranean Ridge. (a–c) MgCl2-filled lakes are shown in red, while thalassohaline lakes are shown in blue. Swath bathymetry shows images of the Lake Hephaestus area with 10-m (b) and 5-m resolution (c). For (c), depressions of ≥ 3,373 m in depth are shown in pink. (d) Locations of sampling site S1 (35°03.32 N; 22°04.11E) and S2 (35°03.99 N; 22°04.55E). Multibeam swath bathymetry (b,c) was obtained by echo-sounding and processed with NEPTUNE, CARIS and GMT packages19.
