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.