Talk:L'Atalante basin

Title L'Atalante Basin?
Is this not the name of the basin? Why are not Urania Basin and Discovery Basin, with Bannock Basin (left unmentioned) combined and covered in one encyclopedic article Deep hypersaline anoxic basin, which however currently redirects to Brine pool? --Wetman (talk) 00:20, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't know if "basin" should be capitalized, I was just following the usage in the articles I read. Folks call it a lake or basin or deep sea basin without much care. Having an article on each basin is appropriate; they are all different in their chemical and faunal compositions. Bannock is much further away from the others. There are many other Deep hypersaline anoxic basins aka Deep hypersaline anoxic lakes in other seas. Combining these would be like combining all glaciers into one article because they are all made of ice. Abductive  (reasoning) 02:42, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Second paragraph edit
A passage in the second paragraph was somewhat unclear due to the grammar. I tried editing it, but I'm not 100% sure I interpreted the passage correctly and I'm not familiar with this type of region, so I'd like to make note of it here. I highlighted what I'm unsure of.

Original text (text only):
 * The approximately 1.5 m halocline between the seawater above and brine below teems with bacterial and archaeal cells; chemoautotrophs which feed on ammonia from the brine but cannot function without some oxygen. Members of archaeal anaerobic methane oxidizers group 1 (ANME-1), and haloarchaea are found only in the halocline.

The first is a fragment; I interpreted it as meaning that the bacterial and archaeal cells in the halocline are all chemoautotrophs. For the second, I interpreted as meaning that members of both ANME-1 and haloarchaea exist only in the halocline. Is this correct?

I edited the text as follows:


 * The approximately 1.5-metre halocline between the seawater above and brine below teems with bacterial and archaeal cells: they are chemoautotrophs, which feed on ammonia from the brine but cannot function without some oxygen. Members of archaeal anaerobic methane oxidizers group 1 (ANME-1) and haloarchaea are found only in the halocline.

Laogeodritt [ Talk 15:21, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, there is no other energy source down there. I'll clarify something. Abductive  (reasoning) 15:46, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Unclear sentence
In the middle of the paragraph describing which organisms live within and below the halocline is this sentence:
 * No groups manage to prosper above, within and below the halocline.

This obviously contradicts the surrounding text. But maybe a word is missing and it is intended to be "no groups of manage to prosper". 108.234.224.230 (talk) 23:06, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Tried to clarify. Abductive  (reasoning) 03:24, 10 May 2020 (UTC)