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Serpentinization-Associated Mineral Catalysis of the Protometabolic Formose System

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The vertical transport of methane from different potential emission types on Mars

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Actinobacteria-mediated serpentine dissolution and implication for biosignatures on Mars

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A PROPOSAL FOR CLIMATE STABILITY ON H 2 -GREENHOUSE PLANETS

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Multiple Rodingitization Stages in Alkaline, Tholeiitic, and Calc-Alkaline Basaltic Dikes Intruding Exhumed Serpentinized Tethyan Mantle from Evia Island, Greece

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Geologic hydrogen as an emerging fuel: experimental insights, thermodynamics, kinetics, and reactive transport modeling

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Methane on Mars: subsurface sourcing and conflicting atmospheric measurements

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Low temperature production and exhalation of methane from serpentinized rocks on Earth: A potential analog for methane production on Mars

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Geochemistry of a continental site of serpentinization, the Tablelands Ophiolite, Gros Morne National Park: A Mars analogue

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Quantifying low temperature production of methane on Mars

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Experimental study of serpentinization and abiotic CH$_4$ production in martian conditions.

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Serpentinization and methanation in martian underground like conditions: an abiotic origin for CH4 on Mars?

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