Arguments for an abiotic origin of low-molecular weight organic compounds in deep-sea hot springs are compelling owing to implications for the sustenance of deep biosphere microbial communities and their potential role in the origin of life. Theory predicts that warm H2-rich fluids, like those emanating from serpentinizing hydrothermal systems, create a favorable thermodynamic drive for the abi...

Experimental, petrographic and numerical methods are used to explore the igneous evolution of the early solar system. Chapters 1 and 2 detail the results of petrographic and experimental studies of a suite of primitive achondritic meteorites, the ureilites. The first chapter presents data that reveal correlations between mineral modal proportions and mineral chemistry that are used to guide exp...

The East Harrison Lake belt (EHLB) refers to a northwest-trending belt of rocks occurring to the east of Harrison Lake in southwest British Columbia (Figure 1) which is currently the focus of exploration for ultramafic-related Cu-Ni (PGE). The geology of the EHLB will also be summarized as a 1: 50 000-scale compilation map (Ash et al., in preparation) incorporating both published and unpublishe...

Pipe-like ultramafic bodies, hosting Ni–Cu–PGE sulphide deposits, INTRODUCTION intrude the Main Gabbro and the roof metasediments of the Ivrea The Ivrea Zone, in NW Italy, is believed to represent an Zone, NW Italy. These bodies were emplaced at 287 ± 3 Ma exposed section of the lower continental crust (Mehnert, and represent the last mantle-derived melts associated with an 1975; Garuti et al.,...

Talc schist deposits are reported in central Cameroon region, and different alteration zones were determined depending on differences related to the texture color of host rock. For purpose determining mineralogical physicochemical characteristics talc schist, a total 45 samples from sites studied collected analyzed using an array physico-chemical methods. mainly composed variable amount associa...

taposed along the north-trending, high-angle Nahlin fault; all three tectonic elements are intruded by the Late Cretaceous Atlin Mountain pluton (Figure 1-19-2). The oldest rocks in the eastern domain are Mississippian to Triassic oceanic; crustal and sedimentary rocks of the Cache Creek Complex. These include ultramafite, basalt, limestone, chert, argillite and wacke, and probably a mixed ultr...

Olivine chemistry as a petrogenetic indicator for origin and formation conditions of Sargaz-Abshur ultramafic-mafic intrusion, SE Baft, Kerman