Open AccessSerpentine and serpentinization: A link between planet formation and life
Author(s) -
Othmar Müntener
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
geology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.609
H-Index - 215
eISSN - 1943-2682
pISSN - 0091-7613
DOI - 10.1130/focus102010.1
Subject(s) - geology , planet , link (geometry) , astrobiology , astronomy , physics , combinatorics , mathematics
Ultramafic rocks, composed mainly of olivine and pyroxenes, are a major component in the lithosphere of early terrestrial planets, where they formed by direct crystallization of mantle-derived magmas on the planet's surface or by partial crystallization as cumulates from a magma ocean. On modern
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