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3.5 billion years of glass bioalteration: Volcanic rocks as a basis for microbial life?

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A model for the production of sulfur floc and “snowblower” events at mid-ocean ridges

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Thermodynamic constraints on hydrogen generation during serpentinization of ultramafic rocks

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

Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments

(2008) Julius S. Lipp et al.   NATURE

Large heat and fluid fluxes driven through mid-plate outcrops on ocean crust

(2008) M. Hutnak et al.   Nature Geoscience

Cell proliferation at 122 C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation

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