Data Publication

Data supplement to "A Study in Blue: Secondary Copper-rich Minerals and their Associated Bacterial Diversity in Icelandic Lava Tubes"

Nina Kopacz

Utrecht University

(2022)

Descriptions

Lava tubes on Earth represent some of the most enticing Martian analogue environments when investigating the possibility of past or present life on Mars. Lava tubes provide stable, sheltered environments, isolated and protected from the radiation on the surface. The microbial mats in these caves further regulate the environment for life, allowing various microbial communities with different metabolisms to coexist. This adaptation is so successful, one could imagine such a microbe-mineral continuum might occur on other planets. The data from this package is from investigated lava caves in Iceland. The project aims to correlate biological and mineralogical data to describe the interactions between the microbes and their geological substrates, to identify microbe-specific speleothems as biosignatures, and to develop a sampling technique in these fragile environments. This is achieved with a combination of X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), DNA sequencing, scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDS), and confocal Raman microscopy. The data is provided in 6 subfolders for 6 experiments/samples. Detailed information about the files in these subfolders is given in the explanatory file Kopacz_et_al_2022_Data_description. Contact person is Nina Kopacz - Researcher - k.a.kopacz@uu.nl

Keywords

Originally assigned keywords

Natural Sciences - Earth and related environmental sciences (1.5)

lava tubes

Mars

PELE

analogues

Iceland

microbial mats

geological substrates

microbe-specific speleothems

MSL enriched keywords

igneous rock - extrusive

lava

minerals

chemical elements

copper

measured property

copper

equipment

x-ray spectrometer

energy-dispersive x-ray spectrometer

x-ray fluorescence spectrometer

Apparatus

electron microscopy

Technique

chemical and mineralogical analysis

Raman spectrometry - chemistry and mineralogy

crystal structure analysis

Raman spectrometry - crystal lattice

MSL enriched sub domains i

geochemistry

microscopy and tomography

Source

https://public.yoda.uu.nl/geo/UU01/I32Z95.html

Source publisher

Utrecht University

DOI

10.24416/uu01-i32z95

Creators

Nina Kopacz

Utrecht University

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4407-5509

Contributors

Kopacz, Nina

ContactPerson

Utrecht University

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4407-5509

Csuka, Joleen

Researcher

Columbia University

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9014-9196

Baqué, Mickael

Researcher

Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- Und Raumfahrtdisabled, Cologne, Germany

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6696-6030

Iakubivskyi, Iaroslav

Researcher

University of Tartu

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0744-2357

Guðlaugardóttir, Hrefna

Researcher

University of Akureyri

Klarenberg, Ingeborg J.

Researcher

University of Akureyri

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9548-9069

Ahmed, Mahid

Researcher

Utrecht University

Zetterlind, Alexandra

Researcher

Utrecht University

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3155-1182

Singh, Abhijeet

Researcher

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0807-6080

ten Kate, Inge Loes

Researcher

Utrecht University

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1135-1792

Hellebrand, Eric W.G.

ProjectMember

Utrecht University

Author identifier (Scopus):

6602339562

Stockwell, Brent R.

Researcher

Utrecht University

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3532-3868

Stefánsson, Árni B.

Researcher

Nordvulk, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland

Vilhelmsson, Oddur

Researcher

University of Akureyri

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8799-0964

Neubeck, Anna

Researcher

Uppsala University

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1291-5529

Schnürer, Anna

Researcher

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0038-553X

Geppert, Wolf

ProjectLeader

Stockholm University Astrobiology Centre

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8452-181X

References

10.1038/nmeth.3869

https://arcgisserver.isor.is/

10.1371/journal.pone.0061217

10.1186/1471-2105-12-385

10.1093/nar/gks1219

10.1007/s11084-012-9289-y

10.1128/AEM.00062-07

Citation

Kopacz, N. (2022). Data supplement to "A Study in Blue: Secondary Copper-rich Minerals and their Associated Bacterial Diversity in Icelandic Lava Tubes" (Version 1.0) [Data set]. Utrecht University. https://doi.org/10.24416/UU01-I32Z95

Dates

Updated:

2024-07-12T11:09:11

Collected:

2018-07-01/2018-07-20

Language

en

Funding References

Funder name: Dutch Research Council (NWO)

Funder name: RaBioFAM

Funder name: University of Akureyri Research Fund

Rights

Restricted - available upon request

Datacite version

1.0

Geo location(s)

Eldhraun lava field and Ódáðahraun lava field, Iceland