Life helps make almost half of Earth’s minerals

theafh

41d ago

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kzrdude

When they say “half” they mean half of the kinds. It's not like half of the weight of the minerals on earth.

dr_dshiv

Many aquagenic minerals are so close to being life themselves. We have way more mineral species on earth than on non-water bearing planets.

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zeristor

Shame the paper itself is behind a paywall.