Saline Valley brine pool looking east.	Saline Valley Brine pool looking west.	Biofilm on the southern edge of the saline valley brine pool.	Biofilm on the southern edge of the saline valley brine pool.
Collecting sunken raft crystals off the muddy bottom of the brine pool.	Close up of sunken raft crystals pink with halophilic organisms.	Close up of the sunken raft crystals with scale bar (mm/cm).	Island formed by rafts of crystals crashing into a high spot in the brine pool and breaking up.