ReviewLife (Basel, Switzerland)2018
The Paleomineralogy of the Hadean Eon Revisited.
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- The role of minerals in prebiotic evolution: Implications for identifying worlds with the potential for life's origin.Fundamental research · 2026Review
- Redox chemistry of early Earth and the origin of life.Communications chemistry · 2026Review
- Influence of Rare Earth Elements on Prebiotic Reaction Networks Resembling the Biologically Relevant Krebs Cycle.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
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- Mineral Element Insiders and Outliers Play Crucial Roles in Biological Evolution.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Potassium at the Origins of Life: Did Biology Emerge from Biotite in Micaceous Clay?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Role of the Interchangeable Cations on the Sorption of Fumaric and Succinic Acids on Montmorillonite and its Relevance in Prebiotic Chemistry.Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 2021Article
- Macrobiont: Cradle for the Origin of Life and Creation of a Biosphere.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
A preliminary list of plausible near-surface minerals present during Earth's Hadean Eon (>4.0 Ga) should be expanded to include: (1) phases that might have formed by precipitation of organic crystals prior to the rise of predation by cellular life; (2) minerals associated with large bolide impacts, especially through the generation of hydrothermal systems in circumferential fracture zones; and (3) local formation of minerals with relatively oxidized transition metals through abiological redox processes, such as photo-oxidation. Additional mineral diversity arises from the occurrence of some mineral species that form more than one 'natural kind', each with distinct chemical and morphological characteristics that arise by different paragenetic processes. Rare minerals, for example those containing essential B, Mo, or P, are not necessary for the origins of life. Rather, many common minerals incorporate those and other elements as trace and minor constituents. A rich variety of chemically reactive sites were thus available at the exposed surfaces of common Hadean rock-forming minerals.
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