serpentinization

The First Steps When Water Meets Rock

Scientists have detected abiotic methane, which forms from geochemical reactions without any input…

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When water encounters certain magnesium- and iron-rich mantle minerals, exciting things can happen…

In theory, the process of serpentinization, where seawater infiltrates and reacts with the mantle…

As a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the early 1950s, Stanley Miller attempted to…

When mantle rocks come into contact with seawater, the resulting reaction, called serpentinization…

When exhumed mantle material creates new seafloor along mid-ocean ridges, seawater seeps into…

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Springs and aquifers that originate within ophiolites, mountains comprised of old seafloor, contain…

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