Acknowledgments
This work and all UCLA participants were supported by an NSF CAREER
award EAR-1352212 and NSF ICER-1936715 and Heising-Simons Foundation
2021-3137, with mass spectrometry supported by the Department of Energy
through BES grant DE-FG02-13ER16402, to Aradhna Tripati. Alexandrea
Arnold and Lauren Santi received support from the Center for Diverse
Leadership in Science which is supported by the Silicon Valley Community
Foundation, Packard Foundation, and Sloan Foundation, and Alexandrea
Arnold was also supported by a Cota-Robles Fellowship. Victoria
Petryshyn collected samples from the Great Salt Lake and Walker Lake as
part of the International Geobiology Course, which was supported by the
Agouron Foundation and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Xingqui
Liu was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
(NSFC 41572338). We thank Jack Oviatt for samples he helped to collect
in Utah and contributed towards this manuscript. R. Boch thanks
Christoph Spötl and Jürgen M. Reitner for their contribution during
field work and sampling related to the travertine/tufa in Austria.