Microbial Populations of Stony Meteorites: Substrate Controls on First Colonizers [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 Finding fresh, sterilized rocks provides ecologists with a clean slate to test ideas about first colonization and the evolution of soils de novo. Lava has been used previously in first colonizer studies due to the sterilizing heat required for its ...
Alastair W. Tait +4 more
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Meteorites: Messengers from the Early Solar System [PDF]
CHIMIA, 2010 Meteorites are fragments from solar system bodies, dominantly asteroids. A small fraction is derived from the Moon and from Mars. These rocks tell a rich history of the early solar system and range from solids little changed since the earliest ...
Beda A. Hofmann
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The Nitrogen Heterocycle Content of Meteorites and Their Significance for the Origin of Life
Life, 2018 Carbonaceous chondrites are very primitive meteorites that are rich in carbon. They contain many soluble organic compounds, including nitrogen heterocycles.
Zita Martins, Martins Zita
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Radon on Mars and the Moon derived from Martian and lunar meteorites [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe radioactive gas radon-222, a fluid and aerosol tracer in Earth’s lithosphere and atmosphere, can also reveal subtle rock physics processes in extraterrestrial environments, such as those involving water, but remains poorly constrained in planetary ...
Frédéric Girault +7 more
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Pressure‐Induced sp 2 ‐sp 3 Transitions in Carbon‐Bearing Phases
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-9., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Sergey S. Lobanov +1 more
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Magnetic Recording Stability of Taenite‐Containing Meteorites
Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 Sub‐μm taenite and tetrataenite grains observed in a number of (stony‐)iron meteorite groups are promising sources of paleomagnetic records in meteorites.
José A. P. M. Devienne +3 more
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The Osmium Isotope Signature of Phanerozoic Large Igneous Provinces
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 229-246., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Alexander J. Dickson +2 more
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Arhaeoastronomical analysis of the Levinsadovka sacrificial complex (South Russia) [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2013 The article presents the results of a study of the unique sacrifice of the Levinsadovka sacrificial complex. On it were found large accumulations of animal bones near the buildings. An analogue of this sacrificial complex in the Northern Black Sea region
Vodolazhskaya, L.N., Larenok, V.A.
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AGU Advances, 2021 Magnetic fields in the early solar system may have driven the inward accretion of the protoplanetary disk (PPD) and generated instabilities that led to the formation of planets and ring and gap structures.
Roger R. Fu +5 more
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Possible Ribose Synthesis in Carbonaceous Planetesimals
Life, 2022 The origin of life might be sparked by the polymerization of the first RNA molecules in Darwinian ponds during wet-dry cycles. The key life-building block ribose was found in carbonaceous chondrites.
Klaus Paschek +7 more
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