Metals May Have Promoted Early Metabolism in Earth's Oceans (2 of 5) (IMAGE)

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Metals May Have Promoted Early Metabolism in Earth's Oceans (2 of 5)

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Visual summary of the main findings of this study. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 19th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Kitadai at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) in Yokosuka, Japan, and colleagues was titled, "Metals likely promoted protometabolism in early ocean alkaline hydrothermal system."

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Norio Kitadai, ELSI, Tokyo Tech

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