Scientists solve mystery of odd patterns of oxygen in solar system's earliest rocks
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 13:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Cosmochemists have solved a long standing mystery in the formation of the solar system: Oxygen, the most abundant element in Earth's crust, follows a strange, anomalous pattern in the oldest, most pristine rocks, one that must result from a different chemical process than the well-understood reactions that form minerals containing oxygen on Earth.