organism: salt mine metagenome
description: The former salt mine Asse II, located in the mountain range of Asse / district Wolfenbuettel in Lower Saxony/Germany, was in operation from 1908-1964. Since 1967 it has been used as a deep geological repository for low-level (LLW) and intermediate-level (ILW) radioactive waste. It is composed of salt rocks, which are approximately 250 million years old, comparable to other Permian salt formations. For respective safety assessment (SA) studies it is one important issue to clarify how microbial activities in rock salt may influence the degradation of organic substances in LLW and ILW waste containers, how they influence the corrosion of waste containers, how they may alter barrier material, and how they may influence the transport behavior of radionuclides in case of incidents. Identification of the microbial community in salt sumps of the Asse II pit is important due to few data exist on the microbiology of salt environments associated with an acidic pH.
attributes.tag: strain
attributes.value: Archaea and Bacteria
attributes.tag: collection_date
attributes.value: 2012-07-23
attributes.tag: geo_loc_name
attributes.value: Germany: Wolfenbuettel
attributes.tag: isolation_source
attributes.value: salt rocks and salt sumps at the subsurface
attributes.tag: biomaterial_provider
attributes.value: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Resource Ecology, division of biogeochemistry
attributes.tag: collected_by
attributes.value: Isabel Zirnstein
attributes.tag: depth
attributes.value: 750m
attributes.tag: env_biome
attributes.value: salt mountain
attributes.tag: genotype
attributes.value: 16S rDNA
attributes.tag: lat_lon
attributes.value: 52.129189 N 10.671365 E
attributes.tag: passage_history
attributes.value: 1, pyrosequencing
attributes.tag: samp_size
attributes.value: 8 Liter
attributes.tag: temp
attributes.value: 30
attributes.tag: sample_type
attributes.value: missing
attributes.tag: BioSampleModel
attributes.value: Microbe, viral or environmental