Readily available phosphate from minerals in early aqueous environments on Mars

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 824-827

  Adcock, C T ^a   Hausrath, E M ^a   Forster, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; MARS; MINERAL; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PHOSPHATE; REACTION RATE; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

EID: 84885002359     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1923     Document Type: Article

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