Abstract Multiple lines of evidence indicate an active hydrogeological history Mars and chemolithoautotrophy-suited environments within its Noachian terrains. As a result, one the primary aims upcoming missions to is search for signs ancient life. Here we report on laboratory-scaled microbially assisted chemolithoautotrophic biotransformation Martian breccia Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 composed...

Abstract The Ni-Cu-platinum group element (PGE) sulfide mineralization in the 1.85 Ga Sudbury impact structure occurs two discrete environments: (1) along or near basal contact, including disseminated to semimassive an inclusion-rich sublayer, fragmental underlying anatectic footwall breccia, and veins disseminations pseudotachylitic (2) inclusion-bearing quartz diorite phase of radial concentr...

8 Secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) U-Pb ages of Ca-phosphates from four texturally 9 distinct breccia samples (72255, 76055, 76015, 76215) collected at the Apollo 17 landing site 10 were obtained in an attempt to identify whether they represent a single or several impact 11 event(s). The determined ages, combined with inferences from petrologic relationships, may 12 indicate two or possib...

Mud volcanoes (MVs) are the most prominent indicators of active methane/hydrocarbon venting at the seafloor on both passive and active continental margins. Their occurrence in the western Mediterranean is patent at the West Alboran Basin, where numerous MVs develop overlaying a major sedimentary depocentre containing overpressured shales. Although some of these MVs have been studied, the detail...

In this paper, we report analysis of various basaltic lunar samples including 14053 and 14072, KREEP basalt 15386, thirty basalt clasts from Apollo 14 breccia 14321, as well as impact-generated samples (matrix from breccia 14168, olivine vitrophyres 14321,1180 and 14321,1539, and impact melt 14310) using a combination of solution and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (...