Redox History of the Earth's Interior since ∼3900 Ma: Implications for Prebiotic Molecules
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Discover Life
- Vol. 31 (4/5) , 311-341
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1011895600380
Abstract
The history of the oxidation state in the Earth's mantle has beenconstrained using (a) the whole-rock abundances of Cr and V inancient volcanics, and (b) the composition of Cr-rich spinels in ancient...This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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