Hydrogen-rich hydrothermal environments in the Hadean ocean inferred from serpentinization of komatiites at 300 °C and 500 bar

Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus

(2015) Hsiang-Wen Hsu et al.   NATURE

High-temperature water–rock interactions and hydrothermal environments in the chondrite-like core of Enceladus

(2015) Yasuhito Sekine et al.   Nature Communications

The Drive to Life on Wet and Icy Worlds

(2014) Michael J. Russell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Theoretical constraints of physical and chemical properties of hydrothermal fluids on variations in chemolithotrophic microbial communities in seafloor hydrothermal systems

(2014) Kentaro Nakamura et al.   Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Reactions between basalt and CO2-rich seawater at 250 and 350°C, 500bars: Implications for the CO2 sequestration into the modern oceanic crust and the composition of hydrothermal vent fluid in the CO2-rich early ocean

(2013) Takazo Shibuya et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Elemental dissolution of basalts with ultra-pure water at 340^|^deg;C and 40 Mpa in a newly developed flow-type hydrothermal apparatus

(2013) SHINGO KATO et al.   GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Insights into early Earth from Barberton komatiites: Evidence from lithophile isotope and trace element systematics

(2013) I.S. Puchtel et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Abiogenic methanogenesis during experimental komatiite serpentinization: Implications for the evolution of the early Precambrian atmosphere

(2012) Codi Lazar et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Depth variation of carbon and oxygen isotopes of calcites in Archean altered upperoceanic crust: Implications for the CO2 flux from ocean to oceanic crust in the Archean

(2012) Takazo Shibuya et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

H2 generation by experimental hydrothermal alteration of komatiitic glass at 300°C and 500 bars: A preliminary result from on-going experiment

(2011) MOTOKO YOSHIZAKI et al.   GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

Catabolic and anabolic energy for chemolithoautotrophs in deep-sea hydrothermal systems hosted in different rock types

(2011) Jan P. Amend et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Serpentinite and the dawn of life

(2011) N. H. Sleep et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Thermal history of the Earth and its petrological expression

(2010) Claude Herzberg et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Serpentinization as a source of energy at the origin of life

(2010) M. J. RUSSELL et al.   Geobiology

The influence of carbon source on abiotic organic synthesis and carbon isotope fractionation under hydrothermal conditions

(2010) Thomas M. McCollom et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Highly alkaline, high-temperature hydrothermal fluids in the early Archean ocean

(2010) Takazo Shibuya et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Serpentinized troctolites exposed near the Kairei Hydrothermal Field, Central Indian Ridge: Insights into the origin of the Kairei hydrothermal fluid supporting a unique microbial ecosystem

(2009) Kentaro Nakamura et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Elevated concentrations of formate, acetate and dissolved organic carbon found at the Lost City hydrothermal field

(2009) Susan Q. Lang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Thermodynamic constraints on hydrogen generation during serpentinization of ultramafic rocks

(2008) Thomas M. McCollom et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Geological background of the Kairei and Edmond hydrothermal fields along the Central Indian Ridge: Implications of their vent fluids’ distinct chemistry

(2008) H. KUMAGAI et al.   GEOFLUIDS

Oxidation state of iron in komatiitic melt inclusions indicates hot Archaean mantle

(2008) Andrew J. Berry et al.   NATURE