Phosphorus mineral evolution and prebiotic chemistry: From minerals to microbes

Heat flow constraints on the mafic character of Archean continental crust

(2021) Chris Hawkesworth et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Si-Mg isotopes in enstatite chondrites and accretion of reduced planetary bodies

(2020) Jinia Sikdar et al.   Scientific Reports

Major‐element composition of sediments in terms of weathering and provenance: Implications for crustal recycling

(2020) Alex G. Lipp et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Earth’s water may have been inherited from material similar to enstatite chondrite meteorites

(2020) Laurette Piani et al.   SCIENCE

Bayesian Estimation of Earth’s Undiscovered Mineralogical Diversity Using Noninformative Priors

(2019) Grethe Hystad et al.   Mathematical Geosciences

Microfluidic Production of Pyrophosphate Catalyzed by Mineral Membranes with Steep pH Gradients

(2019) Qingpu Wang et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

The chemistry of fine-grained terrigenous sediments reveals a chemically evolved Paleoarchean emerged crust

(2019) Nicolas D. Greber et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Extensive crustal extraction in Earth’s early history inferred from molybdenum isotopes

(2019) Alex J. McCoy-West et al.   Nature Geoscience

Metallic iron limits silicate hydration in Earth’s transition zone

(2019) Feng Zhu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A carbonate-rich lake solution to the phosphate problem of the origin of life

(2019) Jonathan D. Toner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Linking the rise of atmospheric oxygen to growth in the continental phosphorus inventory

(2018) Grant M. Cox et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Estimating the formation age distribution of continental crust by unmixing zircon ages

(2018) Jun Korenaga   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Rapid crustal growth and efficient crustal recycling in the early Earth: Implications for Hadean and Archean geodynamics

(2018) Juan Carlos Rosas et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Effect of silicon on activity coefficients of siderophile elements (Au, Pd, Pt, P, Ga, Cu, Zn, and Pb) in liquid Fe: Roles of core formation, late sulfide matte, and late veneer in shaping terrestrial mantle geochemistry

(2018) K. Righter et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Phosphorus Volatility in the Early Solar Nebula

(2018) Matthew A. Pasek   ICARUS

Ore-Forming Processes Within Granitic Pegmatites

(2018) David London   ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS

Archean phosphorus liberation induced by iron redox geochemistry

(2018) Barry Herschy et al.   Nature Communications

A role for phosphorus redox in emerging and modern biochemistry

(2018) Matthew Pasek   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

Glass dissolution as a function of pH and its implications for understanding mechanisms and future experiments

(2017) Denis Strachan   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction

(2017) Tim E. Johnson et al.   NATURE

Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates

(2017) Matthew S. Dodd et al.   NATURE

Titanium isotopic evidence for felsic crust and plate tectonics 3.5 billion years ago

(2017) Nicolas D. Greber et al.   SCIENCE

Continental growth seen through the sedimentary record

(2017) Bruno Dhuime et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Schreibersite on the early Earth: Scenarios for prebiotic phosphorylation

(2017) Matthew A. Pasek   Geoscience Frontiers

Prebiotic Systems Chemistry: Complexity Overcoming Clutter

(2017) Saidul Islam et al.   Chem

Darwin's Warm Little Pond: A One-Pot Reaction for Prebiotic Phosphorylation and the Mobilization of Phosphate from Minerals in a Urea-Based Solvent

(2016) Bradley Burcar et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Archean upper crust transition from mafic to felsic marks the onset of plate tectonics

(2016) M. Tang et al.   SCIENCE

Young asteroidal fluid activity revealed by absolute age from apatite in carbonaceous chondrite

(2016) Ai-Cheng Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Diffusion of phosphorus in olivine and molten basalt

(2015) E. Bruce Watson et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

The Origin of Life-Out of the Blue

(2015) John D. Sutherland   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Microbes, Mineral Evolution, and the Rise of Microcontinents—Origin and Coevolution of Life with Early Earth

(2015) Eugene G. Grosch et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

From Chemical Gardens to Chemobrionics

(2015) Laura M. Barge et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism

(2015) Bhavesh H. Patel et al.   Nature Chemistry

Emergence of modern continental crust about 3 billion years ago

(2015) Bruno Dhuime et al.   Nature Geoscience

Phosphorus: a Case for Mineral-Organic Reactions in Prebiotic Chemistry

(2015) Matthew Pasek et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Earth's Phosphides in Levant and insights into the source of Archean prebiotic phosphorus

(2015) Sergey N. Britvin et al.   Scientific Reports

A relatively reduced Hadean continental crust and implications for the early atmosphere and crustal rheology

(2014) Xiaozhi Yang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Glasses as sources of condensed phosphates on the early earth

(2014) Nils G Holm   GEOCHEMICAL TRANSACTIONS

Investigation of schreibersite and intrinsic oxidation products from Sikhote-Alin, Seymchan, and Odessa meteorites and Fe3P and Fe2NiP synthetic surrogates

(2014) C. Pirim et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Widespread mixing and burial of Earth’s Hadean crust by asteroid impacts

(2014) S. Marchi et al.   NATURE

Paleomineralogy of the Hadean Eon: A preliminary species list

(2013) R. M. Hazen   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

A reference Earth model for the heat-producing elements and associated geoneutrino flux

(2013) Yu Huang et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Hydrothermal modification of the Sikhote-Alin iron meteorite under low pH geothermal environments. A plausibly prebiotic route to activated phosphorus on the early Earth

(2013) David E. Bryant et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Eoarchean within-plate basalts from southwest Greenland

(2013) F.E. Jenner et al.   GEOLOGY

Water and hydrogen are immiscible in Earth’s mantle

(2013) Enikő Bali et al.   NATURE

Evidence for reactive reduced phosphorus species in the early Archean ocean

(2013) M. A. Pasek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why nature really chose phosphate

(2013) Shina C. L. Kamerlin et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEWS OF BIOPHYSICS

Isotopic evidence for internal oxidation of the Earth's mantle during accretion

(2012) Helen M. Williams et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The mean composition of ocean ridge basalts

(2012) Allison Gale et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Overview of the rocky component of Wild 2 comet samples: Insight into the early solar system, relationship with meteoritic materials and the differences between comets and asteroids

(2012) Don BROWNLEE et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Statistical geochemistry reveals disruption in secular lithospheric evolution about 2.5 Gyr ago

(2012) C. Brenhin Keller et al.   NATURE

The global pattern of trace-element distributions in ocean floor basalts

(2012) Hugh St C. O’Neill et al.   NATURE

Mineralogy of the lower mantle: A review of ‘super-deep’ mineral inclusions in diamond

(2011) Felix Kaminsky   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The oxidation state of Hadean magmas and implications for early Earth’s atmosphere

(2011) Dustin Trail et al.   NATURE

Effect of Carbonate on Hydroxyapatite Solubility

(2010) Haobo Pan et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN

Partitioning of Mo, P and other siderophile elements (Cu, Ga, Sn, Ni, Co, Cr, Mn, V, and W) between metal and silicate melt as a function of temperature and silicate melt composition

(2010) K. Righter et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Why did Nature select phosphate for its dominant roles in biology?

(2010) Matthew W. Bowler et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY

Heterogeneous Accretion and the Moderately Volatile Element Budget of Earth

(2010) M. Schonbachler et al.   SCIENCE

The effect of CO2 and salinity on olivine dissolution kinetics at 120∘C

(2009) Valentina Prigiobbe et al.   CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE

The Crystal/Melt Partitioning of V during Mantle Melting as a Function of Oxygen Fugacity Compared with some other Elements (Al, P, Ca, Sc, Ti, Cr, Fe, Ga, Y, Zr and Nb)

(2009) Guilherme Mallmann et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Mineral evolution

(2008) R. M. Hazen et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Calcium Phosphate Solubility: The Need for Re-Evaluation

(2008) H.-B. Pan et al.   CRYSTAL GROWTH & DESIGN