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

Natural phosphides - the minerals containing phosphorus in a redox state lower than zero – are common constituents of meteorites but virtually unknown on the Earth. Herein we present the first rich occurrence of iron-nickel phosphides of terrestrial origin. Phosphide-bearing rocks are exposed in thr...

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Autores principales: Britvin, Sergey N., Murashko, Michail N., Vapnik, Yevgeny, Polekhovsky, Yury S., Krivovichev, Sergey V.
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25667163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep08355
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author Britvin, Sergey N.
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description Natural phosphides - the minerals containing phosphorus in a redox state lower than zero – are common constituents of meteorites but virtually unknown on the Earth. Herein we present the first rich occurrence of iron-nickel phosphides of terrestrial origin. Phosphide-bearing rocks are exposed in three localities in the surroundings of the Dead Sea, Levant: in the northern Negev Desert, Israel and Transjordan Plateau, south of Amman, Jordan. Seven minerals from the ternary Fe-Ni-P system have been identified with five of them, NiP(2), Ni(5)P(4), Ni(2)P, FeP and FeP(2), previously unknown in nature. The results of the present study could provide a new insight on the terrestrial origin of natural phosphides – the most likely source of reactive prebiotic phosphorus at the times of the early Earth.
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spelling pubmed-43223602015-02-20 Earth's Phosphides in Levant and insights into the source of Archean prebiotic phosphorus Britvin, Sergey N. Murashko, Michail N. Vapnik, Yevgeny Polekhovsky, Yury S. Krivovichev, Sergey V. Sci Rep Article Natural phosphides - the minerals containing phosphorus in a redox state lower than zero – are common constituents of meteorites but virtually unknown on the Earth. Herein we present the first rich occurrence of iron-nickel phosphides of terrestrial origin. Phosphide-bearing rocks are exposed in three localities in the surroundings of the Dead Sea, Levant: in the northern Negev Desert, Israel and Transjordan Plateau, south of Amman, Jordan. Seven minerals from the ternary Fe-Ni-P system have been identified with five of them, NiP(2), Ni(5)P(4), Ni(2)P, FeP and FeP(2), previously unknown in nature. The results of the present study could provide a new insight on the terrestrial origin of natural phosphides – the most likely source of reactive prebiotic phosphorus at the times of the early Earth. Nature Publishing Group 2015-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4322360/ /pubmed/25667163 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep08355 Text en Copyright © 2015, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder in order to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25667163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep08355
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