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Origin of the RNA World in Cold Hadean Geothermal Fields Enriched in Zinc and Potassium: Abiogenesis as a Positive Fallout from the Moon-Forming Impact?

Life
The ubiquitous, evolutionarily oldest RNAs and proteins exclusively use rather rare zinc as transition metal cofactor and potassium as alkali metal cofactor, which implies their abundance in the habitats of the first organisms.
Armen Y. Mulkidjanian, Daria V. Dibrova, Andrey Y. Bychkov   +2 more
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Oxygen Fugacity of Global Ocean Island Basalts

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
AbstractMantle plumes contain heterogenous chemical components and sample variable depths of the mantle, enabling glimpses into the compositional structure of Earth's interior. In this study, we evaluated ocean island basalts (OIB) from nine plume locations to provide a global and systematic assessment of the relationship between fO2 and He‐Sr‐Nd‐Pb‐W ...
Lori N. Willhite, Ricardo Arevalo, Philip Piccoli, John C. Lassiter, Devin Rand, Matthew G. Jackson, James M. D. Day, Robert W. Nicklas, Marek Locmelis, Thomas J. Ireland, Igor S. Puchtel   +10 more
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TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE SYNTHESIS OF ALUMINIUM DOPED ZINC OXIDES BY CHEMICAL COPRECIPITATION

Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería, 2013
Aluminium doped zinc oxides (AZO) are promising replacements for tin doped indium oxides (ITO) but thin films show a wide range of physical properties strongly dependent on deposition process conditions.
Silvia Maioco, Claudia Vera, Natan Rajchenberg, Ricardo Aragón   +3 more
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Controlling factors of the metallogenic intensity in Han–Xing-type skarn iron deposits: insights from trace elements in magmatic magnetite

Frontiers in Earth Science
The Handan–Xingtai region is one of the important production areas of skarn-type iron deposits in China. The magmatic rocks associated with iron mineralization in this region are predominantly intermediate-basic and intermediate-felsic in composition ...
Jin Yanan, Jin Yanan, Wang Denghong, Zhang Juquan, Zhang Juquan, Zhang Long   +5 more
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Earth’s past and present mantle oxygen fugacity

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Oxygen is the most abundant element in Earth’s mantle. Oxygen fugacity (fO2), which quantifies the availability of oxygen to mediate oxidation–reduction reactions, affects important mantle processes, such as depth of melting, extraction of volatiles to the atmosphere, crustal composition and ore body generation.
Elizabeth Cottrell, Dante Canil, Charles Langmuir, Katy A. Evans, Fabrice Gaillard   +4 more
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Magnetic susceptibility of Variscan granite-types of the Spanish Central System and the redox state of magma

Geologica Acta, 2017
Magnetic susceptibility (MS) has been measured in Variscan granites from central Spain. They yield values in the order of 15 to 180μSI units for S- and I-type granites, indicating that both types belong to the ilmenite series.
C. VILLASECA, V.C. RUIZ-MARTÍNEZ, C. PÉREZ-SOBA   +2 more
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Volatiles and Redox Along the East African Rift

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
The upper mantle under the Afar Depression in the East African Rift displays some of the slowest seismic wave speeds observed globally. Despite the extreme nature of the geophysical anomaly, lavas that erupted along the East African Rift record modest ...
Maryjo Brounce, Sara Scoggins, Tobias P. Fischer, Heather Ford, Joseph Byrnes   +4 more
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Geochemical indicators for cobalt-rich skarn exploration: constraints from the Pusangguo granodiorite (Gangdese) on geochemistry, zircon U-Pb geochronology and Hf-Nd-Sr isotopes

Frontiers in Earth Science
The Pusangguo skarn-type copper-polymetallic deposit in the Gangdese metallogenic belt hosts economic cobalt mineralization. An integrated study of petrography, zircon U-Pb geochronology, whole-rock geochemistry, and Sr–Nd–Hf isotopes indicates the ore ...
Zhaxi Pubu, Qiong Ci, Fuzhi Gong, Nan Chao   +3 more
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Geological characteristics of neoproterozoic motianling granitic pluton hosting uranium mineralization in North Guangxi, China: Insights from biotite chemistry

Frontiers in Earth Science
The Motianling pluton represents a characteristic U-bearing granite pluton in South China. Biotite serves as an indicator for the mineralization of metals such as Cu, Sn, and W in granite. Previous studies have extensively investigated the U metallogenic
Pailong Luo, Pailong Luo, Chunying Guo, Chunying Guo, Chunying Guo, Qiaohui Pi, Qiaohui Pi, Ning Wang, Ning Wang, Naiyuan Liu, Naiyuan Liu, Naiyuan Liu   +11 more
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Experimental petrology and the upper mantle: simulating peridotitic sources and mantle heterogeneities

All Earth
Experimental petrology provides a direct means of constraining mineral phase stability and primary magma compositions across a wide range of pressure – temperature (P-T) conditions.
Caroline D. K. Tolotti, Rommulo Vieira Conceição   +1 more
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