Carbon can aid thermal production of polyphosphates and reduced phosphorus species from less reactive minerals, suggesting magmatic and thermal-metamorphic rocks may have provided essential phosphorus species for life origin, according to high-temperature experiments and analysis of metamorphic rocks from the 3.22 Ga Moodies Group in South Africa.
- Abu Saeed Baidya
- Michelle M. Gehringer
- Eva E. Stüeken
